A "Dresden Plate" quilt appliqu with various printed cottons, the centres of each plate of golden yellow cotton, each block interspersed with deep rose pink square, bound with and reversing to ivory cotton, quilted to design with stylised floral infill patterns and single cable around the border--76 x 80in. (190 x 200cm.), 1930s, American; and another similar, appliqu with large stylised flowerheads in various printed cottons, against an ivory ground, edged with acqua-marine coloured cotton, reversing to the former, with machine stitched diamond lattice quilting--72 x 82in. (180 x 205cm.), mid 20th century (2)

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A "Dresden Plate" quilt appliqu with various printed cottons, the centres of each plate of golden yellow cotton, each block interspersed with deep rose pink square, bound with and reversing to ivory cotton, quilted to design with stylised floral infill patterns and single cable around the border--76 x 80in. (190 x 200cm.), 1930s, American; and another similar, appliqu with large stylised flowerheads in various printed cottons, against an ivory ground, edged with acqua-marine coloured cotton, reversing to the former, with machine stitched diamond lattice quilting--72 x 82in. (180 x 205cm.), mid 20th century (2)

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