PHILADELPHIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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AN APPLIQUED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
Philadelphia, late 18th century
Rectangular, with thirty squares each centering an appliqued chintz floral spray on a cream colored ground and separated by bands of gold and red paisley intersecting with similarly colored millefiori print sashing, the whole enclosed by a paisley inner-border and surrounded by a chintz outer-border with floral sprays against a burnt gold ground, quilted in an alternating herringbone pattern, bound in red millefiori printed cotton, with plain cream cotton backing
88 x 101½in.
Philadelphia, late 18th century
Rectangular, with thirty squares each centering an appliqued chintz floral spray on a cream colored ground and separated by bands of gold and red paisley intersecting with similarly colored millefiori print sashing, the whole enclosed by a paisley inner-border and surrounded by a chintz outer-border with floral sprays against a burnt gold ground, quilted in an alternating herringbone pattern, bound in red millefiori printed cotton, with plain cream cotton backing
88 x 101½in.