AN APPLIQUED, REVERSE-APPLIQUED, EMBROIDERED AND TRAPUNTO COTTON QUILTED COVERLET

OHIO, MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN APPLIQUED, REVERSE-APPLIQUED, EMBROIDERED AND TRAPUNTO COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
Ohio, mid-late 19th century
The square coverlet centering nine blocks appliqued with abstracted orange, red and green coxscomb set with variously embroidered, appliqued and reverse-appliqued orange and red, green and orange, red and green and red birds and abstracted red and green heart-motifs, all outlined in trapunto-fruit sashing and enclosed in a red and beige triple inner border surrounded by a white ground outer border appliqued with stylized green urns issuing orange, red and green flowers, green butterflies, orange and red flying birds, green spreadwing eagles with reverse-appliqued details and green peacocks with orange legs and embroided red reverse-appliqued tail feathers, the whole bound in green and channel quilted
82in. square

Literature

The Quilt Engagement Calendar, (New York, 1999), fig. 35.
Phyllis George with Ann E. Berman, Living with Quilts (New York, 1998), pp. 157-159.

Lot Essay

Original coupled with a note inscribed, "Eda Barnes, Barnesville, Ohio," this quilt may have been made by, for, or most likely, was once owned Eda Barnes. Constructed and comprised of fabrics typical of mid-19th century work, the quilt also features coxscomb, a popular flower at mid-century. Nonetheless, local genealogical records do not reveal anyone by the name of Eda Barnes, or a similar name, in Barnesville until 1908. In that year, "Adda" Barnes organized a quilt exhibition for the town. For further information, see George and Berman, Living with Quilts, p. 157.

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