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Sat, May 16, 2020 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1304
Rare Virginia "Yellow House" Needlework
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
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New Market, Virginia, yellow house with fence flanked by two large trees, small outbuilding or gate to left of house, six-line top panel, stitched on bottom line "Virginia Miles Age 12 years New Market March 8th 1844", inner sawtooth border, strawberry vine outer border, silk on linen, 16 x 17 in.; wood frame with gilt cove molding, lot accompanied by copy of obituary for Virginia Miles Bouse from The Tyrone Daily Herald, July 24, 1897Note: The 1850 U.S. Census lists Virginia Miles as 17 years old and living in Shenandoah, Virginia. Marriage records from Virginia indicate that she married George Bouse, a Methodist minister, in 1851. They lived for a time in Maryland and later in Taylor, Centre County, Pennsylvania. For similar samplers, see Kimberly Smith Ivey's discussion on the "yellow house" samplers, In the Neatest Manner: The Making of the Virginia Sampler Tradition, Curious Works Press and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997, pp. 85-89.Provenance: Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, July 11, 2009, Lot 151; Private CollectionNote: The 1850 U.S. Census lists Virginia Miles as 17 years old and living in Shenandoah, Virginia. Marriage records from Virginia indicate that she married George Bouse, a Methodist minister, in 1851. They lived for a time in Maryland and later in Taylor, Centre County, Pennsylvania. For similar samplers, see Kimberly Smith Ivey's discussion on the "yellow house" samplers, [In the Neatest Manner: The Making of the Virginia Sampler Tradition], Curious Works Press and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997, pp. 85-89.
fading, minor browning of linen, professionally cleaned and stabilized, not examined out of frame
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