A "Lily" quilt, pieced and appliqu in plain dark blue cotton with thirty blocks of lily sprays assembled to face four ways, against an ivory cotton ground, within a dark blue frame and an outer ivory border, bound in blue and reversing to ivory cotton, quilted with square diamonds, the infill squares with stylised floral roundels and four small hearts--70 x 82in. (175 x 205cm.), early 20th century, American, some fading and slight staining
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A "Lily" quilt, pieced and appliqu in plain dark blue cotton with thirty blocks of lily sprays assembled to face four ways, against an ivory cotton ground, within a dark blue frame and an outer ivory border, bound in blue and reversing to ivory cotton, quilted with square diamonds, the infill squares with stylised floral roundels and four small hearts--70 x 82in. (175 x 205cm.), early 20th century, American, some fading and slight staining
Lot Essay
The quilted hearts indicate that this was probably made as a marriage quilt.