Fruit and Flowers Quilt

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Textiles

1845/50

Possibly Baltimore, United States

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Department: Textiles

Title: Fruit and Flowers Quilt
Place: United States (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1845–1850
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted; appliquéd with plain weaves, some printed, some glazed, some padded; embroidered in buttonhole, chain, satin, and straight stitches
Dimensions: 228 × 229.5 cm (89 3/4 × 90 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1957.524
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Mildred Davison, American Quilts-1819-1948-From the Museum Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), cat. 19.
Mildred Davison, American Quilts from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1966), pl. 18.
Elly Sienkiewicz, Baltimore Album Quilts: Historic Notes and Antique Patterns: A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties and Beyond, vol. 1 (C&T Publishing, 1990), 28, 36-37, 39, 44, 45-49, 60-61, 64-67, 70-71, pl. 1.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Quilts-1819-1948-From the Museum Collection, Apr. 20, 1959-Oct. 19, 1959.
Art Institute of Chicago, Quilts from the Permanent Collection, Aug. 19–Nov. 5, 1978 and Nov. 8, 1978-Jan. 21, 1979.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The American Bed and Its Coverings, Nov. 21, 1990–Mar. 31, 1991.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, America the Beautiful: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Mar. 6–July 21, 1996.

Ginsburg & Levy, New York, by Nov. 14, 1957 [inventory no. 27800; incoming receipt RX2396, Nov. 14, 1957; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

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