$13,530
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.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-10-26