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Quilt

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1820-1840

GUSN

GUSN-2930

Description

Rectangular form, off-white cotton ground stenciled with baskets of flowers, rose sprigs, and round medallions with flowerheads and swags in green, yellow, pink, blue; quilted in a zig-zag pattern. Backed with a pieced length of cotton; lined with an old quilt.

Details

Descriptive Terms

quilts
cotton (textile)
quilting
stenciling
Needlework
Quilt
Quilt

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

75 x 62 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1405

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