Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
A Crewelwork Bedcover, Probably Connecticut, Circa 1750s
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 25, 08:52 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
wool and linen
height 82 in. by width 61 in.
worked in crewel on a tabby-weave linen centering a red basket with delicate flowers flanked by double-twisted grapevines along the sides and ending in a flowering apple tree, oak tree, and rose bush on three green hills; the whole with a four-inch fringe of diapered netting and one inch tassels on three edges.
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John & Judy Herdeg;
Susan Stella Antiques, Hartford Connecticut Antiques Show 2001.
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 162, fig. 300.
A nearly identical bedcover was illustrated in Cora Ginsburg, "Textiles in the Connecticut Historical Society," The Magazine Antiques, April 1975, p.747.
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