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Stephen & Carol Huber: 17th - 19th Century Needlework


From Betty Ring's collection

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Sampler memorial by Salome Hobart to Jhon White, Balch's School, Providence, RI


(Description taken from Betty Ring's auction catalogue Januarary 2012 at Sotheby's)

LOT 592
FINE SILK EMBROIDERED MOURNING PICTURE: IN MEMORY OF MR. JOHN
WHITE, SALOME HOBART, MARY BALCH'S SCHOOL, PROVIDENCE, RHODE
ISLAND, DATED 1803. Worked in silk and hair on a silk ground; signed wrought by Salome Hobart, 1803. Original glass and frame.

Height 20 1/2 in. by width 20 1/2.

PROVENANCE
Schindler's Antiques, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1970.
Betty Ring's Collection
Stephen and Carol Huber - Dealers
Dan and Marty Campanelli Collection

EXHIBITED
American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 91, fig. 145)


CATALOGUE NOTE
This and Abby Dean's memorial are unusual for having a lustrous embroidered sky, not yet known on other pieces from Mary Balch's school. The fully embroidered figure with real hair was inspired by a Washington memorial engraving published by Pemberand Luzarder in Philadelphia in 1800. Salome Hobart (c. 1783-1861) was the daughter of Colonel Aaron Hobart (1729-1808) and his second wife, Thankful White Adams (1747-1822) of Abington, Massachusetts. She married Marcus Alden (1782-1848) of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and died in Stamford, Connecticut. Salome Hobart married New York City music teacher Marcus Alden. They lived in New York and had two children. (Additional information provided by Carol and Stephen Huber).

ESTIMATE with 25% buyers premium $10,000 - $15,000

Offered now for $5,600


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