antique-watercolor-silk-and-chenille-pictorial-needlework-att-south-carolina
Lot 2357
Antique Watercolor, Silk, and Chenille Pictorial Needlework, att. South Carolina
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Worked in silk, chenille, and possibly metallic threads on linen ground with watercolor detailing, scene depicting three figures among columns in a wooded landscape beneath blue skies, framed under glass in a molded frame.

Frame dimensions 21 x 26.75 in.

Private Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia

Note affixed to verso reads, "Please do not handle / Picture worked by Miss Sarah / Flint in 1790 in Charleston / S.C. and owned by her great / grand daughter Miss Helen / F. Walter."

With loss; with discoloration and foxing; with hole upper center; silk with some shattering. Not examined out-of-frame.