Lot Details
Lot 179
Silk Needlework Pictorial Sampler
Wrought by Rhoda Newbury, Windsor, CT, Miss Patten's School, circa 1800
In an oval frame, depicting King David playing his harp in a New England town scene. Height 13 3/4 inches, width 10 3/4 inches.
Provenance:
Florence Maine, Litchfield, CT
Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art..., January 31, 1985, lot 357
Rhoda Newbury of Hartford, CT, lived 1786-1874. The embroideries from Miss Patten's School in Windsor, CT, used raised and padded metallic embroidery, such as this example. Pictorial subjects, often Biblical in theme, or coats of arms were used as the decorative motif, and included garlands in gold or silver thread. This example was included in the footnotes of With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley, as an example from Miss Patten's School with central medallion.
C Estate of Gerald Lieber Goodman
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