Lot Essay
There are similar pockets at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,(G.1974-264 and 1963-11) illustrated in Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg, Linda Baumgarten, Williamburg, 1986, p.19
Details
A pair of crewelwork pockets, worked in brightly coloured wools with pink urns of blue and pink flowers and with sprigs of flowers and acorns, against a vermicelli design worked in yellow - 15.5in (40cm.)long, New England, circa 1740 - framed and glazed
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