Sold for:
$2,726
$2,726
Needlework Sampler, "Mary Caddick Nov. 12 1809," probably England, worked in silk and chenille threads on a linen ground, with two figures' faces painted on silk, central pious verses surrounded by richly stitched grapevines, flowering vines, and fruiting branches, above a scene with a house, a milkmaid milking a cow, farmer and work horse, a turkey, chickens and a windmill, with a sawtooth border separating another scene with cottages, shepherd and shepherdess with sheep, a horse-drawn wagon filled with hay, trees and bushes, and dove cotes and doves, (toning, light stains), 21 1/2 x 13 in., in a period molded giltwood frame with beaded border.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-08-15
