Lot Essay
Some of the quilts in the offered lot were worked by the Aline sisters, who owned the historic Octagon House in San Francisco and were neighbors of the Duquettes at Cow Hollow in San Francisco
AMERICAN, MID 19TH/20TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF PIECED AND APPLIQUED QUILT TOPS
American, mid 19th/20th Century
Comprising five variously sized quilt tops, the first pieced in blue, green, brown, yellow, black, purple and multi-toned silk satins, twills and brocades worked in a tumbling blocks pattern; the second worked in brown, purple and pink cotton calicoes in a compass star pattern on white ground set on a green calico field; the third worked in variously brown, blue, red, cream and patterned cotton calicoes and chintzes in a Grandmother's Garden pattern; the fourth worked in various striped, mauve, brown and red cotton chintzes and calicoes in alternating bars of Flying Geese pattern; the fifth worked in red and white cotton in a repeating floral pattern on a diamond ground
The largest: 100 x 85½in. (254 x 217cm.) (5)
American, mid 19th/20th Century
Comprising five variously sized quilt tops, the first pieced in blue, green, brown, yellow, black, purple and multi-toned silk satins, twills and brocades worked in a tumbling blocks pattern; the second worked in brown, purple and pink cotton calicoes in a compass star pattern on white ground set on a green calico field; the third worked in variously brown, blue, red, cream and patterned cotton calicoes and chintzes in a Grandmother's Garden pattern; the fourth worked in various striped, mauve, brown and red cotton chintzes and calicoes in alternating bars of Flying Geese pattern; the fifth worked in red and white cotton in a repeating floral pattern on a diamond ground
The largest: 100 x 85½in. (254 x 217cm.) (5)