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Maker(s):Howe, Margery Burnham (quilt)
Culture:textile: Indian and English (probably); quilt: American
Title:doll's quilt
Date Made:textile: 1750-1800; quilt: 1963
Type:Bedding
Materials:textile: polychrome silk embroidery (chain stitch); white twill weave cotton (fustian) ground; quilting thread
Place Made:textile: India (Gujurat?) and England; quilt: United States; Massachusetts; Deerfield
Accession Number:  HD 1064.1
Credit Line:Gift of Charles F. Montgomery
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Cotton quilt made for a doll's bed (HD 3082), constructed with cutout corners. The covering was made from an embroidered Indian cotton coverlet by Margery Burnham Howe in 1963. Pieces from the HD 1064.2 coverlet were also used for six chair seats (HD 1190.1-.6) and a stool seat (HD 53.032). The description that came with the coverlet reads: "This quilt was worked and given by Harriet, Countess of Orrery to Mrs. Martha Taylor from whom it descended to Mrs. Wood of Tingly House near Wakefield her grandniece who gave it in 1818 to Wm. Bateman." There is a Henrietta Hamilton, the Countess of Orrery (d.1732), who married John Boyle, Earl of Cork And Orrery (1707-1762), in 1728; her portrait is in London's National Portrait Gallery.

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