$900
Needlework Family Register of a Roxbury, Massachusetts, Family, "Wrought by Elesha M. Bryant/aged 14 yrs. Roxbury 1827," stitched with silk threads on a linen ground depicting an arched column with encircled with vines and flowers and cornucopia in the crest above the vital statistics of Martin Bryant (b. 1784), his wife Annastacia White (b. August 15, 1788), and their four children, further embellished with a pious verse, rosettes, and geometric vine border, (fading, toning), 14 1/4 x 17 in., in a later burl veneer frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-08-11