1st item: Hand-pieced and hand-quilted cotton quilt rendered in "Ragged Robbin" pattern featuring multicolored fabrics including pinks, plaids, and pictorials. Seperate binding is machine sewn. Backing is composed of four white feed sacks with mill trademarks visible on underside. 76" H x 61" W. Probably Southern, circa 1940-50. 2nd item: Tied crazy quilt with wool […]
Lot 503: American Crazy Quilt with Pictorial Embroidery, c. 1910
American Crazy Quilt, hand quilted and tied featuring multicolored wool embroidery visible on top and backing, rendered in multicolored fabrics including challis wool, plaids, solids, and stripes. Featuring embroidered designs including flowers, fruit, butterflies, animals, and "Good Night". The quilt has no batting and is finished with a knife edge. The backing is the foundation […]
Lot 501: 3 East TN Textiles: Quilts and Bedcover
Three (3) East Tennessee Textiles, including two (2) Quilts. 1st item: East Tennessee cotton pieced Double Wedding Ring quilt, constructed of narrow rings of multi-colored prints. Each ring center has a four-lobed floral quilting motif and the outer white border is quilted in an undulating wave design. Quilt is bound with a separate pink binding […]
Lot 499: 2 Textiles, incl. Southwestern Wall Hanging of A Church
1st item: Southwestern hanging textile depicting a white church in a landscape with grass and trees, woven out of dyed wool. Unsigned. Housed in a plexiglass box and mounted to a linen mat. 28 3/4″ H x 41″ W x 2 1/4″ D. 2nd item: Turkish handwoven double heybe or saddlebag textile with geometric patterns […]
Lot 500: Pieced Quilt, Original Layout, c. 1870
19th Century, possibly Maryland, center medallion quilt, hand-pieced and hand quilted, features an original layout of Ohio Star and Flying Geese pattern blocks. Rendered with light medium and blue fabrics that show evidence of being home-dyed as well as dark and hand-woven cotton fabrics resembling denim. The white cotton backing is joined with a knife […]
Lot 497: 20th C. Turkish Kilim Rug
Turkish Kilim rug, wool on wool, tribal design with synthetic dyes in colors of red, blue, cream, lime and white. 79" L x 46" W. Mid 20th century. CONDITION: Scattered general wear. Some losses to embroidered designs in rug, and losses and damage to fringe.
Lot 498: Framed Middle Eastern Metallic Embroidered Textile
Framed Ottoman Turkish silk and metallic Suzani style embroidered square velvet cover with crochet border, the center with Sultan's Tugra monogram flanked by Islamic calligraphy and foliate cartouche decoration and the corners with cresent and star decoration. Float mounted in a maple frame. Embroidery: 20" square. Framed: 24 1/2" H x 25 1/2" W. Late […]
Lot 496: Turkish Silk Hereke Rug
Turkish silk Hereke meditation area rug, in colors of greens, rose, coral, blues, ivory, and rust/dark red. 36 1/2" x 62". 20th century. PROVENANCE: Private Williamson County, Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Light general wear, some grime, retains fringes.
Lot 494: 4 Solomon Ekimolelo South African Abstract Paintings, incl. Frescos
Four (4) Solomon Ekimolelo (South Africa, b. 20th century) abstract landscape paintings. 1st-3rd items: Three (3) fresco plaster paintings, including one (1) depicting a figure playing a guitar for three children with small buildings in the background, signed with illegible monogram and "Solomon Ekimolelo" lower right; one (1) depicting a figure crouched before a child […]
Lot 495: 6 South African Abstract Paintings, incl. Hargreaves Ntukwana
Six (6) South African abstract paintings. 1st item: Hargreaves Ntukwana (South Africa, 1938-1999) oil wash and ink on board painting rendered in earth tones depicting two figures seated on a ledge with a banjo and a bongo drum. Signed "H. Ntukwana" lower left. Housed in a giltwood frame with brown canvas liner and giltwood sight […]