Description:
A cotton coverlet featuring a face fabric decorated with a printed, polychrome glazed “chintz” with peacocks and other birds, surrounded by pink flowers and large green leaves, The design dates to the 1820s, and is one of many copies of 17th-century English painter Francis Barlow’s bird designs, which were originally published in the late seventeenth century. The repeating design is roughly 16” long and repeats only once across the selvage width. The coverlet is constructed as a center panel flanked on three sides by gathered flounces of matching fabric. A fourth, matching flounce, machine stitched to the head of the covering, is a later addition. Original, self-fabric covered cording, edges the joins on these three sides. The length of the center piece is 75 ¼ inches, with a width of 53 in. The piece in the middle of the quilt is made up of three separate panels each of different lengths, 12 ½, 23 ½, 17 ¼, from left to right. The coverlet has gathered flounces on 3 of the sides, each 21 ½ inches in length. There is an ungathered pieced flounce at the head of the coverlet which was machine stitched to the coverlet at a later date. Each piece of the ungathered flounce in 10 ¾ inches.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; polychrome Link to share this object record:
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