Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2337Location: BostonDate / Time: November 04, 2006 3:00PM
Description:
Large Pictorial Needlework Sampler, signed "Louisa Lamberts 1831," multicolored silk threads on a linen ground with central rectangular panel with cornucopiae, urn of flowers, and a large house, flanked by flowers, deer, an anchor, birds, butterflies, fruiting trees, a female figure, two other buildings, and several monograms, likely members of Louisa's family, with sawtooth and geometric floral and strawberry borders, (imperfections),sight size 24 1/2 x 16 1/4 in., in a molded giltwood frame.
Estimate $2,000-4,000