Lot 892
  • 892

Fine and Rare Appliquéd Wool Floral Hearth Rug, Attributed to Mrs. Lyman Beech's School, likely East Hampton, New York, Circa 1810

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • wool
  • 35 1/2 by 76 in.
sewn with brilliantly colored red, white, yellow and green wool threads on a black wool ground with flowering rose bushes and tulips trimmed with a dark green fringe; now mounted on a stretcher. 

Provenance

Ronnie Newman, Saddle River, New Jersey.

Literature

Jan Whitlock, "Sewn not Hooked," Antiques, March/April 2012, vol. CLXXIX, no. 2, p. 141.

Condition

With some minor repairs, mounted on a stretcher.
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