10-27-201310-27-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2680BBoston
October 27, 2013 10:00 AMCalender
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Needlework Family Register

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$1,200$1,000
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2680BLocation: BostonDate / Time: October 27, 2013 10:00AM

Description:

Needlework Family Register, "Mary Ingalls aged 10 Wrought this work/Lynn [Massachusetts] August 26, 1814," stitched with silk threads on a linen ground depicting the vital statistics of Henry Ingalls and Susanna Brown who were married May 26, 1772, and their six children, over a pious verse, surrounded by a sawtooth border and with flowering vines issuing from cornucopia, (minor toning, fading, and stains, stitch losses to sawtooth borders),18 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (sight),in a period mahogany veneer frame.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Minor toning, fading, light stain center left, stitch losses to sawtooth borders at u.l., l.l., and right border, blue inner sawtooth border also with a few losses.


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Keywords

Henry Ingalls, Mary Ingalls, Susanna Brown, Massachusetts