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Premier Auction - Session I - February 3, 2023

Fri, Feb 3, 2023 09:00AM EST
Lot 403

Large Silk Mourning Needlework

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$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

British or American, 1810, scene of a well dressed family with painted silk faces and arms, strolling by a columned monument surrounded by willow trees, conifers, and flowers, signed below, "Fanny Miller's Work done in the Fourteenth Year of her age 1810 BU", carnation floral border, silk, gilt threads in monument, watercolor and ink on loosely woven canvas ground, torn envelope with handwritten note detailing early ownership attached, sight 20-1/2 x 20-3/4 in.; gilt frame with twisted rope molding, 23-3/4 x 23-3/4 in. 

 

 

Provenance: Mrs. Talbot Adamson; Private Collection, Middleburg, Virginia

Condition

possible water damage to center resulting in light stains, minor losses to silk faces and arms, evenly spaced holes to right and left sides of carnation border, overall toning and fading, not examined out of frame