FINE SILK EMBROIDERED MOURNING PICTURE, Lucy Moors, Probably Massachusetts Dated 1806

Estimate

6,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

FINE SILK EMBROIDERED MOURNING PICTURE
Probably Massachusetts
silk
18 in. by 17 ¾ in.

Executed in a variety of brown, yellow, green, and gold silk and silk chenille stitches on a white silk ground with an urn-topped monument whose façade is appliqued with a silk oval. The original eglomise panel inscribed, wrought by Lucy Moors, and in the original frame.

Provenance

Stephen and Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Connecticut