Sold for:
$2,133
$2,133
Needlework Sampler, "Martha Peaslee Bar Feb 24 1807," reportedly Newburyport, Massachusetts, stitched with silk threads on a linen ground with central sawtooth bordered reserve with rows of alphabets over a pious verse, bordered by a yellow bowknot at the top flanked by flowering vines issuing from two planters, the lower border with Martha's name and date stitched in an ellipse flanked by floral sprays, all enclosed in another sawtooth border, (toning, fading), 17 1/4 x 17 in. , in a period molded giltwood frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
