02-19-200602-19-2006
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2308Boston
February 19, 2006 11:00 AMCalender
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Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler

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Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2308Location: BostonDate / Time: February 19, 2006 11:00AM

Description:

Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler, Lancaster, Virginia, early 19th century, worked in silk threads on a linen ground with four rows of alphabets over "The Ten Commandments in Verse," over another verse entitled "The Desire" above a depiction of Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and encircling serpent, flanked by trees, baskets of fruit, and birds, enclosed on three sides by a fruiting vine, (toning, fading, color bleeding),24 x 21 3/4 in., in a black painted wooden frame.

Note: Oral history relates that the sampler was given to William MacPherson Bigelow Jr. by Frances Harman Lewis. The sampler was done by a member of her family and is buried on the family estate, Towles Point, Lancaster, Virginia.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

lower portion of picture has some color bleeding from the border and the tree at center, toning, fading.

Keywords

Eve Sampler, Lancaster, Virginia, Adam, Good and Evil, Tree of Knowledge, Frances Harman Lewis, William MacPherson