Description:
Yarn Stitched Wool Bed Rug, Lucy Lathrop, Lebanon, Connecticut, 1804, the bed rug features a central motif of five entwined flowers emanating from an urn, enclosed on three sides with a wide flowering vine border, dated "1804" at top center above the initials "L.L."; the wool yarns worked in a running stitch with cut pile in shades of rust, tan, olive, and brown with an undyed yarn background, fringed on three sides in brown, natural colored woven wool foundation of three breadths seamed vertically, (minor areas of repair),lg. 88, wd. 86 1/2 in.
Provenance: Lucy Lathrop (c. 1759-1791),was the second wife of Charles Lathrop (1755-1849). They were married July 2, 1791. The bed rug has passed through succeeding generations of the Lathrop, Morehead, Patterson, and de Rham families. Two members of this family have some historical significance. James William Lathrop (1815-1877) was the founder of the Savannah, Georgia, Cotton Exchange and was its president until his death in 1877. The husband of Lucy Cornelia Lathrop (1851-1918),Eugene Lindsay Moorhead, was the youngest son of John Motley Morehead, Governor of North Carolina from 1841 to 1845. A genealogy record accompanies the lot.
Estimate $50,000-75,000