purdy-family-embroidered-silk-crib-quilt-1893
Lot 245
Purdy Family Embroidered Silk Crib Quilt, 1893
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Comprised of individual silk blocks each worked in multi-color silk threads depicting an assembled array of whimsical motifs to include children at play, birds, animals, fruits, floral sprays, a flag, among others, bottom panel with name and date, squares joined with various embroidery stitches, housed under glass in a gilt decorated wood frame.

DOA 33.5 x 32 in.

Private Collection, NC

Good estate condition; some holes; some staining; not examined out of frame.