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Pieced quilt
Sunburst Quilt
Pieced quilt
Mrs. Ephraim Scott (American, Pennsylvania (possibly Philadelphia))
American, Pennsylvania
1856
Object Place: possibly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Medium/Technique
Pieced printed cotton plain weave top, printed cotton plain weave back and binding; quilted
Dimensions
Height x width: 226.7 x 234.3 cm (89 1/4 x 92 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Doris S. May and Patricia Nguyen
Accession Number2017.4145
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionSunburst variation quilt with cutouts for bed posts in lower corners; small-scale printed brown cotton ground pieced with light pink eight-pointed stars and sunbrust motifs of fifteen-pointed yellow stars with printed light green borders and red star-shaped centers, different light green print used in ssawtooth border with pink triangular pieces; grid-on-point quilting pattern for most of light brown ground, square divided into eight equal parts around light pink stars, geometric and echo quilting pattern in sunburst motifs, echo quilting pattern in sawtooth border
Inscriptions"Made by Mrs. Ephrain Scott in 1856 aged then 54 years"
ProvenanceBy third quarter of the 20th century, acquired by Paul Pilgrim (b. 1942 - d. 1996) and Gerald E. Roy (b. 1939), Warner, NH; 2014, exhibited as part of "Quilts and Color" at the MFA; 2017, sold by Gerald E. Roy to the MFA. (Accession date: October 11, 2017)