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FINE AND RARE SILK AND GOLD THREAD EMBROIDERED MOURNING PICTURE: TO THE MEMORY OF GEO. WASHINGTON, ATTRIBUTED TO MISSES PATTEN'S SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1815
Auction Closed
January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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FINE AND RARE SILK AND GOLD THREAD EMBROIDERED MOURNING PICTURE: TO THE MEMORY OF GEO. WASHINGTON, ATTRIBUTED TO MISSES PATTEN'S SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1815
painted and embroidered in silk, gold and silver metallic stitches with French knots and chenille, the inner oval bordered with silver sequins; all on a white satin ground.
17 ½ by 13 ⅝ in.
For a group of Misses Patten's school embroideries with similar eagle and festoon decoration, see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: Volume 1, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993), p. 202-205, fig. 235-237.