Auction: Sale #2162 - 2162Location: BostonDate / Time: October 05, 2002 10:00AM
Description:
Framed English Needlepoint Sampler, late 17th/early 18th century, rectangular, stitched with a central shepherd and shepherdess, with biblical quotation above, flanked by flowering vine, and with motifs of animals, flowering trees, a tall ship, a Moor, and Adam and Eve, with cross stitch, flame and chain stitching, in ebonized wood frame, (not examined out of frame),sight 16 1/8 x 7 3/4, frame 18 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.
Estimate $500-700