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Lot 267
Sale 5205 - American Furniture & Decorative Arts
Nov 22, 2008
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$10,000 -
15,000
Price Realized
$37,500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Needlework picture probably worked by catherine pray, philadelphia dated 1823
Depicting a young girl in white dress, bonnet and coral necklace holding a ball, the background with weeping willow and lake with swans, eglomise mat inscribed 'M.A. Pray in her 13th month daughter of J &C Pray Worked by her sister C. Pray, 1823', eglomise mat, in silk and chenille threads, heightened with watercolor on silk ground, gilt frame.
H: 31 1/4 in. W: 37 3/4in.