Two Framed Biblical Wool Needleworks

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Wool and silk on linen, 19th century; the first depicts the Biblical scene of Adam & Eve offering a sacrifice on an alter after leaving the Garden of Eden, worked in cross stitch with the human features worked with a finer thread in petit-point, with silk accents to the clothing, fabric lining to verso and all stretched with nails over a wood strainer and framed under glass; the second a Nativity scene depicting Mary, Joseph, and the Christ child in the manger with angels playing musical instruments alongside as a cow watches, a rural starlit scene in the background, worked in fine cross stitch, nailed to wooden strainer and framed under glass in antique frame.

The first 16 1/2 x 21 in. frame dimensions, 13 3/4 x 16 in. sight.
The second: 22 5/8 x 26 1/2 x 2 in. frame dimensions, 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. sight.

From the Estate of the late Mr. John L. Stone and Mrs. Josephine T. Stone, Middlesex, North Carolina

The first with scattered small areas of loss, brittleness and discoloration to ground fabric, frame with nicks and scuffs and lacking dust jacket; the second with very minor stitch loss, brittleness and discoloration to ground fabric, but otherwise good bright colors, in ill-fitting frame with old newspaper serving as shim.