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An unusual patchwork coverlet, the central panel of glazed roller printed cotton depicting Crystal Palace, bordered with flower heads of the same and other printed cottons and chintz, interspersed with those of plain ivory cotton, with an outer border of white cotton printed in red with cow parsley, roses and peaches--96 x 76in. (240 x 190cm.), third quarter of 19th century, backed
See Illustration
See Illustration
Literature
See Plate 1, The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection, British Textiles from 1850 to 1900, by Linda Parry, 1993, for an example of the Crystal Palace cotton, circa 1851.