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A WHITEWORK QUILTED COTTON COVERLET

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.
Literature
Westchester County Historical Society, Westchester Historian, v, 30, Summer 1954, pp. 102-103
House and Garden, March 1987, pg. 87
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Please note the quilt is signed on verso "Mary & Rachel Seaman" and Gulielma Matilda Seaman"

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