Sale 1559
New York
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18 October 2005
Price realised
USD 3,120
Estimate
A PAIR OF REGENCY SILK AND WOOLWORK PICTURES CIRCA 1810 Worked in colored wools and silks with hand-drawn details, against a silk ground, one depicting a family harvesting apples from a large tree, the other depicting a man playing a pipe to woo a shepherdess beneath a tree surrounded by her flock, a girl looking on and a shepherd boy in the background, each bearing a printed paper label James Connell & Sons/Established 1862/Fine Art Dealers & Publishers/31 Renfield Street/Glasgow 17 x 14 in. (43 x 36 cm.) overall (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 15 December 2004, lot 507.
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Pre-Lot Text
Property of Bronson Pinchot (Lots 401-417)
The story of the family-run firm that’s been a fixture in New York for 80 years, ahead of a landmark sale of furniture, porcelain, clocks, sculpture and more
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