BOSTON, PROBABLY MID-18TH CENTURY

细节

A WOOL ON LINEN TENT-STITCHED PICTURE
Boston, probably mid-18th century
Worked in red, pink, blue, yellow, brown, green, black and white threads depicting an early hunting scene with horse and rider chasing a frolicking deer

19in. high, 21¾in. wide

来源

Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, Sackheim Collection, 10 April 1981, lot 161.

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拍品专文

The image of the horseman or hunter chasing stags is well known in Boston mid-18th century needlework. Several pictures in which the figure appears, more as a supporting character than protagonist, include Mary Pickering's chimneypiece and an anonymously wrought picture (see Ring, Girlhood Embroidery Vol. I (New York, 1993), p. 47, figs. 44 and 45). See also Christie's New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, 26 January 1995, lot 57.