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Crazy Quilt with Center Star and Blue Velvet Border
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Augusta Adèle Smith

Crazy Quilt with Center Star and Blue Velvet Border

1882

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Augusta Adèle Smith

Crazy Quilt with Center Star and Blue Velvet Border

1882

Physical Qualities Silk including velvet and ribbons; silk embroidery threads, silk and metallic thread (copper alloy wrapped around cotton core) cording; quilted silk and cotton or wool lining, 69 x 66-3/4 in. (175.3 x 169.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Marguerite A. Jones
Object Number 1962.13
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift; 1962;.Marguerite A. Jones by inheritance; Augusta Adele Smith (1865-1957), Baltimore, MD.
Anita Jones, American Crazy Quilts, The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 3 -November 29, 2015.

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Sweet Dreams: Quilts and Coverlets from the Collections,' October 26 - December 31, 1994.

"A Victorian Christmas", Downtown BMA, Dec., 1974.
Rebecca Juliette, "Getting Jiggy with it, " B'more Art, July 22, 2015, http://bmoreart.com/2015/07/getting-jiggy-with-it.html

Inscribed: None.

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Augusta Adèle Smith

1864–1956

American, 1865-1957, active Baltimore
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