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Pine Tree Center Medallion Quilt with Fifteen Borders

1864-1874

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Pine Tree Center Medallion Quilt with Fifteen Borders

1864-1874

Physical Qualities Cotton, wool, 76 x 78 in. (193 x 198.1 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Greif, Jr., Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number 2016.101
A center medallion quilt composed of cotton prints, shirtings, dots, and stripes featuring a 13-3/4" x 14-3/4" center pine tree block in red- and green-ground prints. This medallion is surrounded by 15 borders of differing patterns and many different fabrics: 1. 1" strip of printed fabric-taupe ground 2. 1/2" polychrome squares in a 2" wide border 3. 2-1/2" diamonds in squares or square on point in square 4. 1-1/4" strip of printed fabric-lt. green ground 5. 1" polychrome squares in a 3" wide strip 6. 1-1/2" strip of printed fabric-brown ground 7. 2-3/8" rail fence border 8, 1-3/4" pinwheels 9. 1-1/2" strip of printed fabric-olive green ground 10. 1/2" polychrome squares in a 2" wide border 11. 1-3/8" Roman coins border 12. 1-1/8" strip of printed fabric-polychrome paisley on brown ground 13. 3-3/8"Square in Square with Corner Stones 14. 1-1/2" strip of printed fabric-small resist(?) print with blue ground 15. 4-1/2" Bear's Paw blocks with printed red-ground strips between blocks The quilt is backed in a paisley print cotton in red and off-white. Quilting is in diagonal lines 4-1/2" apart in opposite directions, produciing cross hatch. The batting is wool. The edge finishing is 1/4" wide with the front rolled to the back and sewn. This appears to be a revision of the original construction as it is now uneven and results in the outer block's pattern being truncated. Both hand and machine piecing are employed.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2016; Nanette and Irvin Greif, Jr., by purchase ex. coll. Mary Strickler's Quilt Collection/Linda Reuther and Julie Silber,1982.
Quilts: A Tradition of Variations, Albany, California: East Bay Heritage Quilters, 1982, cat. # 32, illus, n. p.

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