$5,288
Needlework Sampler, "Mary Orr her Sampler Worked by her in the 10 year of her Age in the Year of our Lord 1831 at E Norris's school B. Hundred," silk threads on a linen ground, the needlework centered with a large basket of strawberries flanked by flowering vines, rows of alphabets, and a pious verse, with blue silk showing through the basket lattice stitches, the flowers and buds padded, (losses to silk, toning), 17 x 17 in., in a period molded mahogany frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-04