Sold for:
$948
$948
Silk Needlework Memorial Picture, America, early 19th century, silk threads and watercolor on a silk ground, depicting a woman in a landscape grieving beside an urn-topped monument, the urn inscribed with a monogram, the monument inscribed "IN MEMORY OF AN AFECTIONATE SISTER," stitched and painted with a weeping willow, a pond, a row of trees, and shrubbery, (small tear to c. l. sky), sight size 19 x 25 in., in an oval eglomise mat, and molded giltwood frame. Tear is semi-circular about 3/4 in. dia., paint on eglomise is crackling and slightly lifting on all four quadrants.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-07
