Rectangular form with two cut corners patterned with twenty-three stars with conforming rings connected by diamonds comprised of polychrome (red, blue/brown tan chintz printed patches on an off white field). Enclosed on three sides by floral patterned border, densely quilted with floral, diagonal and parallel line pattern.
quilts
chintz
printing (process)
quilting
floral patterns
Bedcover
Quilt, Bed
Quilt, Bed
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
USA
88 x 97 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1290
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