$1,185
Indigo Blue Glazed Calamanco/Whole Cloth Quilt, probably Massachusetts, late 18th/early 19th century, composed of six woven glazed worsted wool panels backed with three panels of olive green woven wool fabric, quilted in a central floral pattern surrounded by scrolling floral vines and diagonal lines, edged in dark blue silk, (repairs, scattered losses), 92 x 90 in. Provenance: This quilt reportedly was once owned by Hadassah (Chapin) Ely, a direct descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin, an early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts. She was born on July 13, 1765, in West Springfield, Massachusetts. On May 28, 1785, she married Elihu Ely (b. August 27, 1767). They resided in West Springfield, and together had eleven children. Hadassah died August 3, 1808, at the age of 41. The quilt came into the possession of her youngest child, Hadassah Ely, who gave it to her niece, Harriet Brownell Robbins, who in turn gave it to her two daughters Harriet Robbins Hillyear and Helen Louise Robbins. Accompanying the quilt is an old tag with inscriptions indicating it was on loan by the sisters to the Old Day House, a museum in West Springfield, built in 1754. Also avaliable is a photocopy of the history of the quilt from the museum with an additional inscription on it: "Hadassah Chapin when a girl, was farmed out with the Day family in West Springfield." Several scattered small areas of darned repairs, several scattered faily unobtrusive holes to indigo side. About one third of one indi Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-02-15
