$4,113
Appliqued Cotton Friendship Album Quilt Top, America, 1858, composed of forty-eight blocks of red, blue, and green mostly solid color fabrics appliqued to a white ground separated by a red cotton grid, with naturalistic, patriotic, geometric, and musical instrument motifs including flowers, fruit, butterfly, peacock, flag, violin, circles, stars, etc. , the larger central square with appliqued lettering "TO SARAH ACCEPT OUR GIFT/AND MAY IT PROVE/ THY FRIENDS ARE MANY/WARM THEIR LOVE," with embroidered signature "Amanda Birdsell Apr 20th, 1858.," many squares with embroidered and pen and ink signatures, mounted on a wood frame, (minor fading), 86 x 65 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-08-10
