拍品 1032
  • 1032

A RARE AMERICAN CANVASWORK PICTURE, EARLY 18TH CENTURY | Bluebird and Woodpecker

估價
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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描述

  • Height 15 in. by Width 10 3/4 in.; 38 by 27.3 cm
depicting a bluebird and a red-headed woodpecker; worked in tent stitch, the reverse bearing a paper label inscribed S. Adams / 18 Lynde Street, and retaining a Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition label.

來源

John S. Walton, Griswold, Connecticut, January 1978;
Vogel Collection no. 288.

展覽

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, Early Needlework Exhibition, October 14, 1988-January 1, 1989.

Condition

Scattered losses throughout, particularly at top and bottom edges. Undulations to canvas, withsSome fading, but colours still attractive. Not examined out of frame, with losses to gilt and ebonized surfaces.
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