Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2524BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 07, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
Needlework Sampler, "Sophia Franklin Davenport, aged 12," silk threads on a blue-green linsey-woolsey ground, with a geometric tulip blossom bordering three sides of rows of alphabets over a verse about the value of learning, lower register with tree and geometric designs, (scattered losses to background),15 x 12 1/2 in., in a gold-painted molded chestnut frame.
Estimate $600-800
Several scattered frayed appearing losses of wool background threads from moths.