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Premier Auctions | Session III

Sat, Dec 5, 2020 09:00AM EST
Lot 573

Fine German Silk Memorial Needlework

Estimate: $500 - $700

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circa 1804, finely embroidered memorial motifs, flowers, and birds, several of them have monograms and dates including center monument with "AB/1804", silk on silk, sight 14-3/4 x 15 in.; carved and stained wood frame, 17 x 17-1/2 in.ÿÿ - Provenance: Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey

Condition

embroidery appears to be reduced on left border, shattering to silk ground, losses to stitching and fading to several monograms and dates, overall fading, not examined out of frame; abrasions to frame
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