Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Eliot Family Canvaswork Coat of Arms, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1760-80
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Eliot Family Canvaswork Coat of Arms
circa 1760-80
worked in red, cream, brown, dark blue, and green wool threads on a teal ground; with family motto Face Aut Tace (Act or be Silent)
20¼ x 16 in. (51.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, October 29, 2004, sale 8016, lot 358
[with] Stephen & Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Connecticut (acquired from the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 1220 (acquired from the above on December 31, 2004)
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, October 29, 2004, sale 8016, lot 358
[with] Stephen & Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Connecticut (acquired from the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 1220 (acquired from the above on December 31, 2004)
Depicting an elephant bust above scrolling foliate arms with the motto Face Aut Tace (Act or Be Silent), the image is based on John Coles' watercolor painted in Massachusetts. According to Carol Huber, this piece may have been worked by Elizabeth Langdon Eliot or one of her daughters at Susanna Cordy's school in Boston. Elizabeth Langdon made one of the great Adam and Eve samplers and married Andrew Eliot, an important Boston minister of the New North Church. A Harvard graduate class of 1737, he was written about extensively in Sibley Harvard Graduates, vol. X p. 128-161.