Lot Essay
Two similar Indiana Lonestar quilts are illustrated in Pottinger, Quilts from the Indiana Amish: A Regional Collection (New York, 1983), p. 29, fig. 17, and p. 31, fig. 21.
Details
AN AMISH PIECED AND QUILTED COTTON COVERLET
INDIANA, DATED 1931
Worked in lavender, orange, salmon, pink, purple, teal, green, plum, navy and yellow plain and satin woven cottons centering a multi-colored Lonestar on a navy ground enclosed by a yellow inner border and navy outer border with slate blue binding; the central field worked in diamond and princess feather quilting, with tulip quilted inner border and ocean waves quilted outer border--84in. square
INDIANA, DATED 1931
Worked in lavender, orange, salmon, pink, purple, teal, green, plum, navy and yellow plain and satin woven cottons centering a multi-colored Lonestar on a navy ground enclosed by a yellow inner border and navy outer border with slate blue binding; the central field worked in diamond and princess feather quilting, with tulip quilted inner border and ocean waves quilted outer border--84in. square
Provenance
By descent in family of maker to present owner.
Literature
Pellman and Pellman, A Treasury of Amish Quilts, (Intercourse, Pa., 1993), p. 58.