$1,293
Boston Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler, "Ann Harden, Blue-Coat School, Boston, November 4 1829," worked in silk threads on a linen ground with rows of alphabets over a pious verse and lower section centered with the figures of Adam and Eve below a serpent-entwined tree, flanked by birds, rabbits, butterflies, and flowering plants, enclosed in a stylized geometric floral border, (toning, fading), 12 x 11 3/4 in. , in a later black painted wooden frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-06-04