Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2524BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 07, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
Needlework "Family Tree" Family Record Sampler, Waltham, Massachusetts, early 19th century, fully stitched silk threads on a linen ground, depicting the vital statistics of Joseph Garfield, b. August 17, 1761, his wife Susanna Hagar Garfield, b. August 20, 1769, married April 4, 1787, and their twelve children, their names and birthdates stitched on the fruit issuing from the tree, surrounded on three sides with a flowering vine, 20 1/2 x 16 in., in a period mahogany veneer frame.
Literature: This sampler is illustrated and discussed in Girlhood Embroidery, Betty Ring, 1993, p. 79, fig. 79.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Very good condition, minor fading.