Sold for:
$1,126
$1,126
Needlework Sampler, "1840 Hannah Page/born 1st mo 25th 1831," 1840, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, with several rows of alphabets, a pious verse, and Hannah's and her brother Daniel's birthdates over several motifs including baskets of fruit, flowers, columns or pedestals, and raised bird motifs made by stitching around cut-out cardboard birds, (toning, scattered stains), 17 1/4 x 18 in. , in a period grain-painted frame. Note: According to a label on the reverse inscribed by a descendent of Hannah "She was a child of a very devout Quaker family."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
