Lot 1010
  • 1010

ENGLISH WOOL AND CANVAS NEEDLEWORK PANEL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY |

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Height with frame 22 1/2 in. by Width 19 3/4 in.; 57.2 by 50.2 cm.
depicting a gentleman farmer walking in a landscape with his wife and child, in a parcel-gilt and ebonized frame; probably from a pole screen

Provenance

Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, December 1975;
Vogel Collection no. 132.

Condition

Losses and restorations to threads in places, primarily in the faces and sky. Some fading and discolouration. Canvas with undulations, possibly cut down slightly. Not examined out of frame. Scattered nicks, wear and losses to frame, with rubbing to gilding and ebonizing.
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