Technical notes and description: Tabby-weave wool face and back; wool thread; cotton filling. The five-panel face of this quilt is of salmon colored, probably imported, worsted fabric. It is patterned with gold thread quilting running stitches that create a central panel of a large circle filled with pineapples, or hearts, surrounded by a frame of diamonds with a fan in each corner. A leafy serpentine forms the inner border. The design on the drops consists of swag and bow garland. Quilting stitches secure gold backing, wool filling, and face fabric.

Related examples: A whitework cotton quilt made by Elizabeth Holmes Adams (1797–1839), Peterborough, New Hampshire, in the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas (Brackman 1989, p. 134).

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.