- Whig Rose Surface-Appliqué Quilt
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Technical notes and description: Tabby-weave cotton face and back; cotton filling. Five floral motifs, popularly known as Whig Roses, compose the X-shaped format of this square quilt. The applied printed cottons (calicos) are in red, pink, solid dark green, and solid yellow. Framing the motifs is a serpentine blossom chain from which sprout floral sprays to fill the voids between motifs. The ground quilting in running stitch follows a pattern of scrolling leaves, while the border is quilted with chevrons.
Related examples: Lipsett 1985, p. 91; Safford and Bishop 1972, no. 270.
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.
Provenance[Sotheby Parke Bernet, May 15, 1975, sale 3760, lot 67]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg, 1975; given to MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"American Traditions: Quilts and Coverlets 1760–1900," The Caroline Weiss Law Building, Lovett Gallery, October 28, 2001–April 7, 2002, Tina M. Llorente.
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