Details
A PIECED AND APPLIQUED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
AMERICAN, CIRCA 1880
Worked in green and yellow calico and red cotton on an elaborately floral and Princess Feather-stitched white cotton ground with a floral central medallion within a sawtooth border surrounded by four spreadwing eagles bearing shields and arrows framed by a sawtooth border and continuous tulip vine, with a red cotton binding--87 x 86in.
AMERICAN, CIRCA 1880
Worked in green and yellow calico and red cotton on an elaborately floral and Princess Feather-stitched white cotton ground with a floral central medallion within a sawtooth border surrounded by four spreadwing eagles bearing shields and arrows framed by a sawtooth border and continuous tulip vine, with a red cotton binding--87 x 86in.
Provenance
Cora Ginsburg
Literature
Deborah Harding, "Quilts: America's Folklore," in America's Glorious Quilts, ed. Dennis Duke and Deborah Harding, (New York, 1987), p. 78.