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English: Patchwork Quilt Top (USA), 1845   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Patchwork Quilt Top (USA), 1845
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English: Small pieces of printed cotton in various colors patched to form a star medallion with scalloped outer edge. Each medallion set in white cotton about eighteen inches square. Twenty-five squares, each five by five inches, joined in a grid of strips of printed cotton, predominantly green. The center of each medallion plain white and several have handwritten inscriptions: "Our mother / The First to Cherish / The last to desert us. / Wm D. Jones / Frances L. Jones / May 11, 1845." "Made by Our Mother / Lucy Jones/ for / I.S. and M.P. Jones / 1845 / in her 64th year." "Our Parents / May the Evening of their / lives be as the morning sun / I.P. and M.E. Jones."
Date 1845
date QS:P571, 1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium cotton
Dimensions H x W: 255 x 250 cm (8 ft. 4 3/8 in. x 8 ft. 2 7/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
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Accession number
1972-28-1
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  • Type: Patchwork quilt top
  • Country: United States
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