$237
Mennonite Pieced Wool "Moon and Stars" Crib Quilt, Pennsylvania, c. 1890, composed of twenty-four colored full and half circles with pie-shaped wedges in solid and patterned fabrics with outline stitching, with diagonal lines stitched on the brown border, 34 x 34 in., mounted onto a wood stretcher. Provenance: Ex America Hurrah Gallery collection, New York City. Literature: This quilt is pictured and described in Quilts, Coverlets, Rugs, & Samplers , by Robert Bishop, William Secord, and Judith Weissman, Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, 1982, p. 102.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12