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The Collection of Henry and Phyllis Brightman
Lot 47

Shirred Table Rug and Hooked Rug with Songbird Border
New England, late 19th/early 20th century

2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$1,536 inc. premium

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Shirred Table Rug and Hooked Rug with Songbird Border

New England, late 19th/early 20th century

One appliqué penny mat with central poppy and animal motifs, shirred scalloped border, original burlap canvas stitched onto later stretched cotton foundation, 23 x 33 in.

One burlap rug densely hooked with woven textiles and plied yarns, evenly faded dyes in variegated shades of indigo, pink, and yellow, sharp black and white outlines, professionally mounted on a burlap and ticking stripe foundation with adhesive Velcro strips at edges for mounting on the included stretcher frame, 25 3/4 x 39 1/2 in.

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Provenance
The table rug: The American Folk Art Collection of Burton and Helaine Fendelman Sotheby's, New York, New York (23 October 1993), Lot 16; Collection of Don and Faye Walters, Goshen, Indiana.

Hooked rug: Paul and Margaret Weld, Middletown, Connecticut.

Literature
The table rug illustrated in Thomas K. Woodard and Blanche Greenstein, Crib Quilts and Other Small Wonders (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981), p. 20, fig. 15.

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