Sold for:
$8,190
$8,190
Fine Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania silk on linen nedlework sampler , inscribed "Sarah Banes work wrought AD 1830 in the ninth year of her age" working in a variety of stitches in shades of blue, green, tan, white, and yellow with rose upper border over verse, flanked by birds, bees, and butterflies and an elaborate basket of flowers, over a landscape with manor house, trees, animals, figure, and flock of birds, flanked by trailing grapevines, 25" x 22".
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2006-09-23
