Elaborate Needlepoint: “Honor thy Father and thy Mother.” Biblical passage in Hebrew and English with decorative birds and flowers surrounding text. With personal message “From Dora, 1898.”
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 296
(ANGLO-JUDAICA). Graphic Art. From the Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection (and other properties).
Elaborate Needlepoint: “Honor thy Father and thy Mother.” Biblical passage in Hebrew and English with decorative birds and flowers surrounding text. With personal message “From Dora, 1898.”
England, 1898:
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
The previous owner relates that when as a child he and his siblings might misbehave, their father would insist they stand facing the wall upon which this needlepoint hung, and contemplate the message inherent!