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Lot 59
Sale 5198 - English, Continental Furniture & Dec Art
May 5, 2009
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$250
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Scottish needlework sampler third quarter 18th century
Worked in green and red silks on wool with a four line verse beginning 'Virtue's the chiefest Beauty of the Mind...', alphabet and number series, and flower pots and birds within a stylized floral border, framed.
NOTE: Possibly Susanna McLaughlin, born 1755, the youngest of two daughters born to Susanna [Campbell] McLaughlin and Colin McLaughlin, Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland. At some point the spelling of the name changed from/to McLachlan.