Technical notes and description: Tabby-weave cotton face and back; cotton filling. Within an eccentric grapevine border, plain squares alternate with appliques of a traditional laurel leaf motif and an unidentified, but similar, foliate arrangement. All have red four-petal flowers in the center with green leaves radiating from a central point. The grid is six-by-six blocks, and there are a total of twenty-one applique calico squares. The quilting patterns in the plain squares range from feathered circles to cornucopia. The ground is simply quilted with parallel diagonal lines. All  quilting unites the three layers: face, back, and filling.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.