Sold for:
$711
$711
Needlework Sampler, "Maria Ronksley her Work July 16, 1824," England, the sampler worked with silk threads and wool yarns on a linen ground, with central reserve depicting a symmetrical design of flowering plants, butterflies, squirrels, trees, rabbits, and bowls of fruit, over a verse "Have Communion with few/Be friendly with one/Deal justly with all/Speak evil of none," and a large manor house flanked by potted flowering plants, bordered on three sides with a geometric flowering vine, (toning, fading, stains to left edge), 18 x 18 1/4 in. , in a period rosewood veneer frame with gilt liner.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
