Central Medallion Quilt with "Yankee Puzzle" or "Hour Glass" Borders
Mary Carpenter JonesWW-1795-320967
1795·Center: cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, and wool in buttonhole, chain, cross, single cross, feather, Roumanian, satin, single satin, stem, and twined double running stitches.
Squares: cotton, cotton and linen, and linen, plain weaves; block, copperplate, and roller printed·238.5 × 252.2 cm (93 7/8 × 99 1/4 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Catalogue
- Year
- 1795
- Dimensions
- 238.5 × 252.2 cm (93 7/8 × 99 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Mary Carpenter Jones
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Mary Carpenter Jones
American artist, active from 1825
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- Mary Carpenter Jones
- Year
- 1795
- Dimensions
- 238.5 × 252.2 cm (93 7/8 × 99 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1795-320967
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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