Object Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Bacon, Lenice Ingram |
Object Name |
Quilt |
Title |
Anna Elizabeth Mason Quilt |
Date |
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Year Range from |
1840 |
Year Range to |
1860 |
Description |
Red and white one-block on point checkerboard design, all squares being approximately 2 inches. The pattern consists of vertical lines of pictorial and print fabrics. Lines of colored, engraved head images depict two characters: a Hindu prince wearing an elaborate headdress, earrings and necklaces, and a young Scots woman with her hair in ringlets, wearing a Scotch bonnet decorated with two pheasant feathers and a plaid around her shoulders. These lines of pictorial images are separated by a vertical row of a print fabric with small black and red rectangles on a white background. The head images are generally grouped in lines as mirror images, with some exception, The entire outer edge is composed of red (probably Turkey red) squares on point, bound in a matching red applied binding.The on point setting creates a zig-zag effect. At the center back top is a pen and ink drawing of a child waving from behind what appears to be a curtain with scattered flowers and the words, "A Happy New Year 1852 May angels guard your slumbers 'til the dawn's light." White backing with a center seam . There are two hanging sleeves, one narrow, one wide. Quilted in the ditch with white thread about six stitches per inch. Little or no batting |
Provenance |
Card provided with the quilt. ANNA ELIZABETH MANSON QUILT Unusual Early Textile Anna married William Richardson Jones December 5, 1854, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the grandmother of Marion Jones Jamieson of Newton, Massachusetts. On the back of the quilt is sewn a pen and ink drawing with the caption "A Happy New Year 1852 May angels guard your slumbers 'til the dawn's light." Marion says the handwriting is her grandmother's. Lent by Lenice Ingram Bacon 275 Picture Blocks |
Artist |
Anna Elizabeth Mason Family |
Dimensions |
H-73 W-73 inches |
People |
Bacon, Lenice Ingram |
Source |
Fiondella, Susan |
Object ID |
2023.003.002 |