Hand-pieced, machine and hand-quilted quilt rendered in multicolored vibrant fabrics, suggesting the pieces are remnants from a dress factory or from a professional seamstress or hatmaker. Fabrics include satin and silk in floral robe prints. The center panel is built on a foundation cloth, and the green and multicolored striped border is machine quilted in […]
Lot 948: American Evening Star Crib Quilt Circa 1860s
Hand-pieced and hand-quilted small crib quilt in the Evening Star pattern, rendered with all cotton fabric in green, yellow, red small-scale printed fabrics and solid white, and white quilting thread. Inner and outer borders are double green printed cotton fabric. By-the-piece quilting in star blocks and parallel lines in the borders. One loom width (43") […]
Lot 947: 2 American Crazy Quilts incl. Small Piece Quilt Top & Embroidered Velvet Quilt
Two (2) American crazy quilt textiles. 1st item: Hand-pieced crazy quilt top with 19" square blocks made from a variety of satin, silk, and challis fabrics including solids and prints, some with printed portraits, one piece hand-painted, and some with embroidery including the name "Emma", a flag, paisleys, flowers, and crosses. With pearl cotton embroidered […]
Lot 946: Pennsylvania Crazy Quilt C. 1890
Crazy quilt, likely Pennsylvania, made from wool, challis, solid, plaid, and printed fabrics, having embroidered imagery including a flag, house, purse, boot, flowers, horseshoe, scissors, and spectacles. Embroidered floral vine border on two sides. Bound with a separate binding made of pieced velvets to a maroon fabric backing. Place names embroidered on the quilt top […]
Lot 945: 2 American Crazy Quilts
Two (2) American crazy quilts, circa 1910. 1st item: Hand-pieced and hand-tied crazy quilt with embroidered motifs including gloves, butterflies, scissors, starts, flowers, and feathers, made from a variety of fabrics including challis, solid wool, wool plaids, velvets, and upholstery braid. Tied with pearl cotton, back to front bound with an embroidered hem, and pink […]
Lot 944: Log Cabin Quilt C.1890s & One-Patch Wool Plaid Lap Robe C. 1930s
Two (2) American quilted textiles. 1st Item: Hand-pieced and hand-quilted Log Cabin quilt in the Sunshine/Shadow layout, made from Challis wool fabrics in shades of green and red, with red centers to each block. Made on a foundation and joined to a woven novelty dark green striped border, with by-the-piece quilting throughout, using a dark […]
Lot 943: Feathered Star Quilt c. 1860 w/ Provenance – Mary Jane Gregory Balis, NY & CT
American hand-pieced and hand-quilted quilt in the Feathered Star Pattern by Mary Jane Gregory Balis (Amenia, NY, 1819-1892), all cotton blue resist print and plane white fabric throughout with white cotton thread. Corner cutouts measuring 10" x 10" to accommodate a four-poster bed. Medium-weight cotton batting, a separate hand bound binding, and an off-white cotton […]
Lot 942: American Eight Pointed Star Quilt, 1840s
American, possibly Mid-Atlantic, hand-pieced and appliqued quilt, in an original Eight-Pointed Star design with central floral motif. Made from various cotton printed fabrics including "Turkey Red", early blue, pink, yellow, and blue plaid, dark green with black print, and Rainbow prints. Hand-quilted with foliate and cross-hatching by-the-piece. Lightweight cotton batting and separate binding, and a […]
Lot 941: 1813 Pennsylvania Needlework Sampler with Verse, by Sarah Roberts
Pennsylvania needlework pictorial sampler made by Sarah Roberts (b. circa 1795), silk on linen. Geometric and foliate borders enclosing two birds facing one another, surrounded by flowering urns and other floral motifs, above a traditional sampler poem reading: "This work perhaps my friends may have/ When I an in my silent grave/ And which when […]
Lot 940: 4 American Pottery Items, Mid Atlantic
Grouping of four (4) pottery items, including one (1) earthenware cream pot with lead glaze, one (1) small handled earthenware pot with lead glaze, one (1) earthenware pitcher with olive green glaze and stamped on the base "Gleaves" (Gleaves Colonial Art Pottery, Landsdale, PA), and one (1) stoneware oil or grease lamp with lead glaze. […]
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