Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2585BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 04, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Needlework Sampler, "Emily Cone Aged 12 Years 1837," England, worked in silk threads on a linen/wool ground with a large house flanked by trees, flowers, and birds over a pious verse, with three borders depicting crowns, urns, flowers, and baskets of fruit, birds, potted plants, and flowering vegetation, enclosed in a geometric flowering vine, (minor losses to background fabric, minor toning and fading),17 x 12 1/4 in., in a later wood frame.
Estimate $200-300