Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2431Location: BostonDate / Time: November 01, 2008 3:00PM
Description:
Needlework Sampler, late 18th/early 19th century, pieced sampler worked in silk threads on a gauze ground, with a pious verse section applied above a central reserve stitched with a horse, dog, stag, and a bird in a tree with assorted flowers and trees and the initials "AJ," enclosed by an applied border of geometric flowering vines, (toning, minor old small gauze repairs),15 1/2 x 13 in.
Estimate $300-500