A PIECED AND APPLIQUED COTTON COVERLET

PENNSYLVANIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PIECED AND APPLIQUED COTTON COVERLET
Pennsylvania, Late 19th Century
Worked in forty checkerboard diamonds and triangles of variously printed cotton calicoes arranged in rows alternating with bars of glazed cotton chintz
101 x 90 in.

Lot Essay

A similar coverlet combining checkerboard calicoes and glazed chintzes is in a private collection and is illustrated in Jeanette Lasansky, ed. In the Heart of Pennsylvania: Symposium Papers (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1986), p.24, fig.4.