Sold for:
$1,763
$1,763
Needlework Sampler, "Mary Francis aged 9 years in the year 1811," the sampler worked in silk threads on a linen ground, (imperfections), 22 x 17 in. , in a contemporary wood frame. Provenance: By family descent. Note: Family history relates the sampler was done by Mary Francis in 1811, when she was nine. It descended in the Hews family of Weston, Massachusetts. Abraham Hews was a potter who moved from Cambridge to Weston and started a pottery there in 1765. One of the Hews family was a silversmith in the Boston area. A long line of Hews lived in Weston.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-06-03
