SIGNED MARY & RACHEL SEAMAN AND GULIELMA MATILDA SEAMAN, EASTCHESTER, NEW YORK, DATED 1790
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A WHITEWORK QUILTED COTTON COVERLET
Signed Mary & Rachel Seaman and Gulielma Matilda Seaman, Eastchester, New York, dated 1790
Stuffed and quilted centering a basket issuing flowers and leafy tendrils above a star within a grape and meandering vine medallion enclosed by Princess Feather quilting flanked on either side by fish scale quilting within a conforming surround centering a reserve with the initials "MS" with each quadrant having a pomegranate against diamond quilting surrounded by a meandering vine border issuing rosettes and fruit against diagonal quilting within a Princess Feather quilted border, signed on verso, "Mary & Rachel Leaman" and "Gulielma Matilda Leaman"
98 x 97in.
Signed Mary & Rachel Seaman and Gulielma Matilda Seaman, Eastchester, New York, dated 1790
Stuffed and quilted centering a basket issuing flowers and leafy tendrils above a star within a grape and meandering vine medallion enclosed by Princess Feather quilting flanked on either side by fish scale quilting within a conforming surround centering a reserve with the initials "MS" with each quadrant having a pomegranate against diamond quilting surrounded by a meandering vine border issuing rosettes and fruit against diagonal quilting within a Princess Feather quilted border, signed on verso, "Mary & Rachel Leaman" and "Gulielma Matilda Leaman"
98 x 97in.
Literature
Westchester County Historical Society, Westchester Historian, v, 30, Summer 1954, pp. 102-103
House and Garden, March 1987, pg. 87
House and Garden, March 1987, pg. 87
Special notice
This lot has no reserve.
Sale room notice
Please note the quilt is signed on verso "Mary & Rachel Seaman" and Gulielma Matilda Seaman"