Auction: Sale #2052 - 2052Location: BoltonDate / Time: February 24, 2001 10:00AM
Description:
Pictorial Hooked Rug, New England, probably Rhode Island, c. 1860, multicolored whimsical figures of birds, flowers, diamonds, stars, a heart, upper corner spandrels with acorns, within scallop borders at each end, 44 1/2 x 77 in. Provenance: Steven Score, Essex, Massachusetts. Literature: Illustrated in THE HOOKER'S ART, EVOLVING DESIGNS IN HOOKED RUGS, Jessie Turbayne, 1993.
Estimate $2,500-3,500