Premier Auction - Session II - February 4, 2023
Sat, Feb 4, 2023 09:00AM EST
Lot 908
Fine 1820 Pennsylvania Family Tree Needlework on Silk
Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
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| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Chester County, silk on gauze, bordered with quilled cream silk ribbon with four corner rosettes, spacious floral vine border, grapevine enclosing verse and inscription "My Parents & Grand Parents/Names/Josiah & Lydia Garrett/Josiah & Mary Garrett/Benjamin & Mary Hibberb [sic]/Hibberd Garrett" signed on left "Mary H. Garrett's Work 1820", with instructor signature on left "E. Passmore" atop pastoral scene with sheep and rabbits, stitches: cross, tent, chain, split, bullion, French Knot, stem, satin, outline, rococo (queen), 22 x 28 in.; period gilt wood frame 24-1/2 x 30-1/2 in.
Note: Exhibition: New York, The Museum of American Folk Art, November 1978. Illustrated in the catalog, item 78. (with excerpt attached to back board)
Literature: Girlhood Embroidery Volume II, by Betty Ring, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, page 401 fig. 442.
The Magazine Antiques, September 1978 fig. 17. (with excerpt attached to back board)
With genealogy report by Dorothee Hughes Carusso, L.H.D., C.G. attached to back board.
Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers, January 31, 1981 lot 117; Private Collection, Middleburg, Virginia
Condition
darkening to ground, stitched onto later muslin covered board, fraying and loss to silk ribbon (retained), foxing, fading; frame with losses, later retouch, chipping to edges
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