06-05-200506-05-2005
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2295Boston
June 5, 2005 11:00 AMCalender
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Needlework Sampler

Sell one like this
$705$600
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2295Location: BostonDate / Time: June 05, 2005 11:00AM

Description:

Needlework Sampler, "Wrought by Harriot Conant aged 11 1811," silk threads on a linen ground with alphabet panels stitched above a pious verse and signature enclosed in a rectangular reserve with a sawtooth border surrounded by a flowering vine issuing from two urns at lower corners, (thread losses, fading, toning),15 x 21 in.

Note: A genealogical search records that a girl named Harriet Conant was born November 9, 1800 in Lowell, Massachusetts, in Middlesex county.
Estimate $400-500

Keywords

Lowell, genealogical search, Harriet Conant, Massachusetts, Middlesex