Sold for:
$474
$474
Needlework Sampler, "Elizabeth White June 16th 1827," executed in silk threads on a wool gauze ground, with a house flanked by a tree and a potted plant over a pious verse, baskets of fruit, potted plants, flowers, stags, and stars, enclosed in a geometric flowering vine, (two small unobtrusive repairs at center, scattered dye bleeding, minor toning), sight size 17 1/4 x 13 in. , in a later gilt and painted gesso frame. The two stitched reinforcement repairs are in between the lines of lettering about 3/4 and 1 in. dia. in size, several scattered small areas of dye bleeding from green embroidery, appearing as faint blue.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-08-15
