Album Quilt

Description:

Album Quilt, Baltimore, Maryland, c.1850, twenty-five vibrantly colored blocks, eleven of which are signed, one "Mary Boyd 1850," motifs include heart-in-hand, baskets of flowers, and arrangments of flowers with birds, (minor staining and toning),ht. 103, wd. 100 in.

Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Pennsylvania Quilt and Textile Museum in Lititz.

Literature: New Discoveries in Quilts by Robert Bishop Dutton (1975),illustrated p. 73.
Estimate $8,000-12,000


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