Sold for:
$425
$425
Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler, "Lucy Goldstraw aged 10 1839," probably England, the sampler worked in silk threads on a linen ground with a flowering vine border surrounding a verse of "Proverbs" over a central depiction of Adam and Eve flanking the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with encircling serpent, over her signature stitches, surrounded by numerous motifs including flowers, birds, crowns, rampant lions, baskets of fruit, potted plants, a building, trees, and other animals, (toning, fading), 20 x 17 in. , in a molded curly maple frame. Provenance: Ex collection of Robert Roche.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19
