Sold for:
$235
$235
Polychrome Painted Family Record, America, early 19th century, watercolor and pen and ink on paper, featuring a square field edged with blue drapery with tassels over a spreadwing eagle with a banner inscribed "Peace" and "Happiness," and clutching an olive branch and arrows in its talons, over the inscription "Family Record," above three columns with headings inscribed "Marriages," "Births," and "Deaths," all enclosed in grapevine, scroll, and linear borders, (toning), 15 x 11 5/8 in. , in a period mahogany veneer frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-06-04
