Auction: Discovery - 2500Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: April 15, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Framed 1826 Needlework Sampler, "Susanna Owen was born July the 27th 1816/Worked her sampler in her 10th year AD 1826," worked in silk threads on a linen ground, with rows of alphabets over a pious verse and small motifs including a basket of flowers, flanked by birds, cherubs, and peacocks, enclosed in a geometric border, (fading, toning),sight size 18 x 17 1/4 in., in a later molded wooden frame.
Estimate $300-500