$1,300
Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler, Lancaster, Virginia, early 19th century, worked in silk threads on a linen ground with four rows of alphabets over "The Ten Commandments in Verse," over another verse entitled "The Desire" above a depiction of Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and encircling serpent, flanked by trees, baskets of fruit, and birds, enclosed on three sides by a fruiting vine, (toning, fading, color bleeding), 24 x 21 3/4 in. , in a black painted wooden frame. Note: Oral history relates that the sampler was given to William MacPherson Bigelow Jr. by Frances Harman Lewis. The sampler was done by a member of her family and is buried on the family estate, Towles Point, Lancaster, Virginia. lower portion of picture has some color bleeding from the border and the tree at center, toning, fading.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19
