Lot 15
15
PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR
AN AMISH PIECED AND QUILTED COTTON COVERLET

Details
AN AMISH PIECED AND QUILTED COTTON COVERLET
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Worked in red, and teal twill woven cotton and blue crepe in a Bars pattern, with red and teal repeating Diamond-in-Square inner border surrounded by a red outer border with contrasting teal corner blocks, all enclosed by a blue crepe binding; the inner field and border with diamond quilting, the outer border and corner blocks quilted in an alternating flower basket and triple tulip pattern--68½in. high, 67¼in. wide

Lot Essay

A similarly designed Lancaster County Amish Bars quilt with Diamond-in-the-Square inner border is illustrated in Bishop and Safanda, A Gallery of Amish Quilts: Design Diversity from a Plain People (New York, 1976), p. 46, fig. 59.