$3,780
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: April 27, 2021 11:00:00 AM EDT
Initialed, "R B," worked with polychrome silk threads on linen, each of the five pockets variously worked with floral, diamond, or flamestitch, the back entirerly worked in flamestitch, retaining original tape-woven binding.
12 1/2 in. x 2 1/2 in.Provenance
A private New Jersey collection.
M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2009.
Literature
For related examples and discussion of early 18th century needlework, see: Jack L. Lindsey, Wordly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758 (1999), pp. 219-221, and no. 392, pg. 224.