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Large Flowers in Red Pot with Green Lattice Center
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Large Flowers in Red Pot with Green Lattice Center

1844

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Large Flowers in Red Pot with Green Lattice Center

1844

Physical Qualities Cotton, 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"
Credit Line Gift of Sister John de Matha Bersch, SSND, Baltimore
Object Number 1972.44.5
Square unfinished album quilt block depicting large, simplistic, multicolored flowers (red/yellow, yellow/red, striped pink/yellow, blue/yellow) with multiple green leaves emanating from a red flower pot with a green latice center. The designs are all appliquéd with small stitches to the white cotton ground fabric. Printed and plain or solid fabrics used include solid Turkey red, discharge prints with red ground and small yellow oval figure and small dark (black?) oval figure, yellow ground fabric with small brownish design, green ground fabric with black divided ovals, a dark blue/medium blue vermiculate print, and a pink and white "rainbow" or ombre print with thin red lines and swirl designs. Within the open center of the red pot, narrow strips of green and black printed fabric form a lattice work. The maker may have intended to add embroidery to the appliquéd and reverse appliqué flowers as well as the leaves; however no embroidery or ink designs have been added. Three edges of the natural or white ground cotton square are left unfinished. The right edge (as viewed) is a selvage.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift,1972; Sister John de Matha Bersch.
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, catalog does not include 1946.44m, Circulated to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981; BMA Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982.
*this square may or may not have been shown in this exhibit. Records are confused and non-specific.

Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style," 2nd rotation, July 3rd, 2008-Jan. 27th, 2009, no catalog.

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