antique-silk-and-watercolor-pictorial-needlework
Lot 530
Antique Silk and Watercolor Pictorial Needlework
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Circa 1820, worked in silk and chenille on silk ground, depicting a gentleman and his pipe and a young maiden in a wooded landscape with a cottage beyond, presented under glass in a molded gilt frame with a painted black and gold liner.

Frame size 19 x 16 in.

Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina

With tears and shattering of silk ground; discoloration and darkening to silk ground; not examined out-of-frame.