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Description:
Watercolor and Gilt "Parrott-Rice" Family Record, Weymouth, Massachusetts, c. 1830, designed as a portrait of a Cape house surrounded by an oval ring of gilt reserves with names and vital statistics, and grape leaf spandrels, 12 x 14 1/2 in., matted, in a gilt-gesso frame.
Proceeds to benefit the Historic Deerfield Museum Collections Fund.
Estimate $800-1,200
paper very slightly yellowed, embossed London paper mark at upper right. wear to gilt rings. not examined out of frame.
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Keywords
Rice, WeymouthStephen L. Fletcher
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