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Floral Basket Medallion Quilt with Flying Geese Borders
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Dorcas Godman Brashear Harvey

Floral Basket Medallion Quilt with Flying Geese Borders

c. 1840

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Dorcas Godman Brashear Harvey

Floral Basket Medallion Quilt with Flying Geese Borders

c. 1840

Physical Qualities Cotton, silk embroidery threads, 96 x 89 7/8 in. (243.8 x 228.3 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Marion Farrow Noldt, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Object Number 2007.352
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Marion Farrow Stratton Noldt (1926-2014), Tulsa, OK by descent, 1984; Katharine Watson Farrow (née Farrar 1893-1984) by descent, 1914; Clara Catherine Farrar (nee Harvey (1855-1914)) by descent, 1893; Dorcas Godman Harvey (née Brashear 1818-1893).

Inscribed: Hand written in black ink in script on obverse of quilt at top center (within plain stuffed work border: "Dorcas G. Brashear/No.6"

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