Sold for:
$10,530
$10,530
Philadelphia silk on linen needlework sampler , inscribed "Leah Ann Alsop her Work 1823", worked in a variety of stitches in shades of blue, green, brown, yellow, and gold, with central verse surrounded by family initials and flanked by floral vines and baskets of flowers, all above a manor house with lawn, fence, and gazebo, 17" x 19 1/2". For another work by Leah Ann Alsop see Joan Stephens Collection, Sotheby's, January 1997, Lot 2075.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2006-09-23
