Lot Essay
Amish quilts with pictorial stitching are extremely rare. The choice of bucolic animal figures, together with the small dimensions of this quilt, suggest that it was worked for a child.
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A RARE AMISH COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1920
Worked in the Diamond-in-the-Square pattern with a blue diamond stitched with floral and animal figures including birds, lamb, horse, chicken, and duck framed by green peony and tulip-stitched spandrels surrounded by a blue peony-stitched inner border and a green tulip-stitched outer border, with a blue binding--66 x 66in.
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1920
Worked in the Diamond-in-the-Square pattern with a blue diamond stitched with floral and animal figures including birds, lamb, horse, chicken, and duck framed by green peony and tulip-stitched spandrels surrounded by a blue peony-stitched inner border and a green tulip-stitched outer border, with a blue binding--66 x 66in.