Sold for:
$480
$480
Needlework Sampler, "Mary Weller Aged 11 years February 1842," worked in silk threads on a wool gauze ground, depicting a row of alphabets over a flower border, a pious verse, and Mary's signature reserve, over a register with trees, potted flowering plants, baskets of fruit, and little dogs enclosed in a geometric flower border, (scattered losses to background fabric, silk threads with color bleed, toning, fading), 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. , in a period gold-painted molded wood frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-14
