"Star and Crescent" Quilt

Textiles

early 19th century

Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: "Star and Crescent" Quilt
Place: Pennsylvania (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 1800–1830
Medium: Cotton, plain weaves; pieced; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave; printed; edged with cotton plain weave
Dimensions: 217.2 × 216.9 cm (85 1/2 × 85 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young
Reference Number: 2009.1013
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Donald M. D. Young, “The American Patchwork Quilt,” Sandoz Bulletin, no. 35 (1974): 22 (ill.).

Donald Young (died 2012) and Shirley Weese Young, Chicago, by 1974 [Young 1974; acquisition documentation in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.

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