Crewelwork Panel

Description:

Crewelwork Panel, by Mary Balentine, western Massachusetts, 18th century, the panel with shaped hem probably a valance from a set of bed hangings, worked in polychrome wool yarns in a curvilinear floral and fruit design on a natural colored linen ground, accompanied by an old typed exhibition card reading "Sheffield 1733-1933/Loaned by Mary A. Durlack/Piece of valence embroidered by Mary Balentine who married General John Ashley," (toning, minor spots),11 1/2 x 81 in.

Provenance: Mary Durlack to her son Greg Marks.

Literature: Similar examples are illustrated in Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needelwork, 1700-1850, by Susan Burrows Swan, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1977.
Estimate $1,500-2,000

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