AN APPLIQUED AND STUFFED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET

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AN APPLIQUED AND STUFFED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
BY DIANA MORSE, TYRONE, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1861

The inscription "Presented to M.P. Morse./By. Her. Mother./D.F. Morse./Tyrone./1861" within a floral wreath, surrounded by five tan flower pots each containing stuffed and appliqued yellow, green, orange and red flowers and buds, the upper right flower pot with a mother bird feeding four nestlings, the design also including a tan vase with stuffed lemon tree motif, fruit tree with stuffed polychrome berries and four birds, bouquet of flowers, tulips and a weeping willow tree, against an intricately quilted ground--74 x 28in.

來源

Sold in these rooms, January 25, 1986, lot 258

拍品專文

Quilts which exhibit both appliquée and stuffed work are very rare. For other examples, see Robert Bishop, New Discoveries in American Quilts (New York, 1975), pp. 99-103.

The 1855 census of Tyrone, New York lists Diana Morse as a dressmaker. She is also listed as having four children--Charles, 3 months; Emma, 7 years; Mary, 9 years; and Melissa, 16 years. It is reasonable to conjecture that Mrs. Morse made the quilt for either Mary or Melissa.