A "Basket of Lilies" appliqu quilt worked in plain and printed cottons, the baskets and stems of dark brown cotton, the frames of bright orange with brown squares at the crossings, the field white, the flowers of various coloured printed cottons, bound in brown and reversing to cream cotton, quilted with shells--60 x 74in. (150 x 185cm.), 1930s, American, some machine stitching; a "crazy" patchwork quilt of printed and plain cottons, quilted to design--80 x 60in. (200 x 150cm.), 1920s/30s, unfinished at edges; and two other quilts (4)
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A "Basket of Lilies" appliqu quilt worked in plain and printed cottons, the baskets and stems of dark brown cotton, the frames of bright orange with brown squares at the crossings, the field white, the flowers of various coloured printed cottons, bound in brown and reversing to cream cotton, quilted with shells--60 x 74in. (150 x 185cm.), 1930s, American, some machine stitching; a "crazy" patchwork quilt of printed and plain cottons, quilted to design--80 x 60in. (200 x 150cm.), 1920s/30s, unfinished at edges; and two other quilts (4)
Lot Essay
The first quilt is said to have been made by a Mrs Morgan from Tennessee who was of Welsh descent.