WROUGHT BY MARY MARIA GARDINER, CIRCA 1798

Details

A GARDINER FAMILY WOOL ON COTTON NEEDLEWORK BED-HANGING PANEL
WROUGHT BY MARY MARIA GARDINER, CIRCA 1798
Now framed and glazed, bearing a handwritten paper label reading Worked by Mary Maria Gardiner daughter of D.L.G. of East H--- when at school in N. Y. about 1798

Exhibited

Long Island Is My Nation, The Decorative Arts & Craftsmen 1640-1830, The Long Island Museum of Art History and Carriages, Stony Brook, New York, 1976

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

Despite the information on the label, the maker of this panel is probably Maria S. Gardiner (1784-1804), daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Gardiner (see cat. No. 253) and Elizabeth Dering of Shelter Island. Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Dering. The remaining panels from this wonderful set of bedhangings surfaced, as a result of the 1976 exhibition, with a Dering family provenance and are still believed to be owned privately.

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