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Crazy Quilt

1884

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Crazy Quilt

1884

Physical Qualities Silk, including velvet, ribbons, and woven bookmark; silk embroidery threads, metallic threads (copper alloy wrapped around cotton core), oil paint, cotton lining, 62 x 62-3/4 in.
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Amos G. Horney
Object Number 1956.156
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1956; Collection Mrs. Amos G. Horney.
Anita Jones," American Crazy Quilts", The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 3 -November 29, 2015.
See Curatorial Notes.

Inscribed: Woven into ribbon or a bookmark (Stevengraph) depicting the ascending Christ;: "The Ascension/ I/Am/the/Resurrection/and/the/Life/saith/the/Lord"

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