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Silk on Green Linsey-Woolsey Needlepoint Sampler, Abigail (Foster) Barker (1798-1877), Andover, Massachusetts, 1810. Canvas of plain-woven wool and linen threads of earthy green hues worked in pale pink, yellow, and green silk threads, the central reserve in a serrated band border containing eleven rows of five distinct alphabets, one wrought in broderie anglaise rather than cross-stitch, the twelfth line inscribed with numbers 1-10 followed by the signature, 'Abigail Foster aged 12 1810', and the bottom margin filled with four lines of verse, all surrounded by wide border filled on three sides with free-stitched intertwining floral vines originating in two decorated urns at the bottom corners, depicted on a grass-colored groundline flanking small groups of trees and potted plants, finished with stitched eyelet hem, conserved and mounted in period gold-leaf frame, (sight) 14 5/8 x 17 3/4 in., (frame) 18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 October 2017. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Silk on Green Linsey-Woolsey Needlepoint Sampler, Abigail (Foster) Barker (1798-1877), Andover, Massachusetts, 1810. Canvas of plain-woven wool and linen threads of earthy green hues worked in pale pink, yellow, and green silk threads, the central reserve in a serrated band border containing eleven rows of five distinct alphabets, one wrought in broderie anglaise rather than cross-stitch, the twelfth line inscribed with numbers 1-10 followed by the signature, 'Abigail Foster aged 12 1810', and the bottom margin filled with four lines of verse, all surrounded by wide border filled on three sides with free-stitched intertwining floral vines originating in two decorated urns at the bottom corners, depicted on a grass-colored groundline flanking small groups of trees and potted plants, finished with stitched eyelet hem, conserved and mounted in period gold-leaf frame, (sight) 14 5/8 x 17 3/4 in., (frame) 18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 October 2017. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
Tags: Needlepoint, Sampler