Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2431Location: BostonDate / Time: November 01, 2008 3:00PM
Description:
English Needlework Sampler, "Emma Watts finnished (sic) this work in the 9th year of her age 1823," depicting an extensive scene of farmers, animal figures, flowers, dwellings, and pious verses, worked in silk threads on a wool guaze ground, (toning),20 x 21 in., in a later birds-eye maple frame.
Estimate $2,800-3,200
No holes or stitch losses.