Word: needlepointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...
...Chelsea figurines, old Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. started a needlepoint pillow top commemorating the exploits of her husband as Governor General of the Philippines...
...Edwardian tastes and they fitted their palace with the best of what they liked. They liked French tapestries, British, French and Dutch paintings of landscapes and fine-looking people, Persian rugs on the floors, Chinese pottery everywhere, and their favorite kind of chair was one covered with fine needlepoint. Last week, through four days of sightseeing and five of auctioning, Ophir Hall was full of socialites of Edwardian tastes, bidding against the usual agents...
...great Gobelin tapestries of boar-hunting and falconry went for $11,000 apiece. A Gainsborough was knocked down for $6,700, a Joshua Reynolds landscape for only $1,600, a Jan Steen for $3,200, a Rembrandt Peale Washington for $3,400. A Chippendale mahogany and needlepoint settee sold for $2,600; two silver chocolate pots and brandy saucepan for $820. Three Gothic stained & painted glass panels and a roundel were taken out of the west window for $1,400. Then the auctioneers walked all over the house, auctioning as they went, sold off even the servants' billiard table...