Sold for:
$830
$830
Needlework Sampler, "Sarah Titchmarsh Her Work/Finished This Work November th 3 1817," probably England, wrought with silk threads on a wool gauze ground, stitched at the center with a large stag surrounded by assorted birds, animals, flowers, trees, crowns, a house, windmill, and baskets of fruit, an alphabet, and a pious verse, all enclosed in a flowering vine, (small patch l. c., minor toning and background losses), 17 x 13 in., in a later frame. The patched area is about 1 x 3/4 above houseto the right of the urn of flower, a couple very small holes in the lower register.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
