AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY
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A PIECED AND APPLIQUED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
American, 20th century
The rectangular form worked in yellow and green cotton calicoes and red cotton centering a spreadwing eagle in a pointed elliptical surround issuing flowering vines and leaves, all framed in a green cotton calico inner border surrounded by meandering flowers and leaves on a scrolling foliate vine outer border, an bound in green cotton calico; the whole with diamond, teacup and channel quilting; together with a child's coverlet, the square form worked in red and yellow calicoes on a cotton ground centering four rosettes separated by sashing, all in a conforming border
98 x 84in. the first (2)
American, 20th century
The rectangular form worked in yellow and green cotton calicoes and red cotton centering a spreadwing eagle in a pointed elliptical surround issuing flowering vines and leaves, all framed in a green cotton calico inner border surrounded by meandering flowers and leaves on a scrolling foliate vine outer border, an bound in green cotton calico; the whole with diamond, teacup and channel quilting; together with a child's coverlet, the square form worked in red and yellow calicoes on a cotton ground centering four rosettes separated by sashing, all in a conforming border
98 x 84in. the first (2)
Literature
Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, New Jersey, 1975).
Exhibited
Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth Museum, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art," September 30-November 29, 1975.