Sold for:
$705
$705
Needlework Sampler, "Wrought by Harriot Conant aged 11 1811," silk threads on a linen ground with alphabet panels stitched above a pious verse and signature enclosed in a rectangular reserve with a sawtooth border surrounded by a flowering vine issuing from two urns at lower corners, (thread losses, fading, toning), 15 x 21 in. Note: A genealogical search records that a girl named Harriet Conant was born November 9, 1800 in Lowell, Massachusetts, in Middlesex county.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-06-05
