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Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Emma Janet Newman (aged 15), 1855. Fine plain-woven ground worked in cross stitch, broderie anglaise, and satin stitch, the top six rows of alphabets alternating with bands of floral vines, above a block of verse centered by two bird-on-branch vignettes, and two lines of Gothic letters below scrolling vine border, the second block of verse centered between four deer, with the bottom register demarcated by geometric borders above a row of circular and oval reserves, the center inscribed 'Aged 15 Years / Emma Janet Newman / 1855', above a bluebell and sunflower border between potted flowers, hem-stitched in blue thread on all sides, not examined out of later glazed frame, (sight) 12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.; (framed) 16 5/8 x 19 in. Footnotes: Provenance The Joan and Rif Freedman Collection, Massachusetts For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Emma Janet Newman (aged 15), 1855. Fine plain-woven ground worked in cross stitch, broderie anglaise, and satin stitch, the top six rows of alphabets alternating with bands of floral vines, above a block of verse centered by two bird-on-branch vignettes, and two lines of Gothic letters below scrolling vine border, the second block of verse centered between four deer, with the bottom register demarcated by geometric borders above a row of circular and oval reserves, the center inscribed 'Aged 15 Years / Emma Janet Newman / 1855', above a bluebell and sunflower border between potted flowers, hem-stitched in blue thread on all sides, not examined out of later glazed frame, (sight) 12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.; (framed) 16 5/8 x 19 in. Footnotes: Provenance The Joan and Rif Freedman Collection, Massachusetts For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Stichworte: Needlepoint, Sampler