Description:
Item & Subject-Matter: HUGE, oversized breathtakingly colorful and charming vintage framed completed needlepoint-needlework textile delightfully and colloquially depicting “A Day in the Home Life of a Young Colonial-Frontier-Pioneer-Pilgrim Girl”. ***There is so much going on in this spectacularly multi-colored work of art handicrafts:
A young girl/lady/woman in period attire is seated beside a brick fireplace with a roaring, blazing fire warming the kettle suspended above it with the evening’s supper.
Leaning against the fireplace walls are the fireplace tools, and a coal hod/scuttle/pail.
On the fireplace mantle top are the family’s cherished heirloom possessions, and on the walls, the ancestor portraits of beloved family members.
Also hanging on the wall is a bed warmer and an antique clock.
The family must be well-to-do, as the window is stained glass and has curtains.
There is a work table/desk in front of the window and a chair with folded laundered clothing and embroidery work strewn on top.
The Girl has a basket filled with clothing/laundry which she is folding while her cat is at her feet vying for attention.
There are patchwork area rugs on the floor, and even a huge amphora urn vase.
Identification/Markings: Unidentified
Format: Framed, completed needlepoint/petit point textile
Age Period: Vintage ca. 1930s-1950s
Size/Measurements: 34 & ˝"W x 22 & ˝"H (HUGE, oversized)
Condition: Textile imagery remains vibrantly colorful and vividly crisp, evincing no color fading; Frame is also excellent, evincing only the mildest modicum of handling/wear
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