$999
Small Academy Painted Silk Pillow, America, early 19th century rectangular-form creamy white silk covered pillow centered with a pen and ink drawing of a bird feeding her nestlings in a nest placed in a woven handled basket, surrounded by a flowering vine, highlighted with polychrome watercolors, edged in cream-colored silk braid, the corners adorned with creamy white silk ribbon bows, 5 x 7 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-04