Sold for:
$770
$770
Needlework Sampler, "Sarah Johnson/her work 1818," England, stitched with silk threads on a linsey-woolsey ground on linen, depicting an assortment of motifs including a tiger, deer, potted flowers, trees, birds, and baskets of fruit, enclosed in a geometric strawberry vine, (minor background losses, toning), 17 x 12 3/4 in. , unframed. The upper register with a few small losses to background above tiger, one near border, a couple by rt. basket of fruit; lower register has a 1/4 in loss below deer on rt. and a few very sparse minute losses. Appears to be mountd on original wooden panel.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-07
