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Pieced quilt
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Dresden Plate Pattern summer spread
Pieced quilt
Edith Boutilier Kennedy (Canadian, 1878–1966)
American, Nova Scotia
1926
Object Place: Boutiliers Point, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Medium/Technique
Pieced printed cotton plain weave, apppliqued and embroidered onto cotton plain weave
Dimensions
Height x width: 214.6 x 181.6 cm (84 1/2 x 71 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Tomie Nagano and Wayne E. Nichols
Accession Number2014.1954
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPieced summer spread (or bedspread) in Dresden Plate pattern. Blossom or plate motifs, about seven inches in diameter, pieced with printed cottons in an array of colors (although motifs in corners incorporate light blue woven silk or [perhaps acetate] moire peices). Appliqued motifs basted to white or unbleached cotton (muslin) ground with yellow embroidery around edges in long-arm cross stitch. Each motif is about 7" in diameter; there are four across the top and ten down the sides. The ground consists of two lengths of cloth (each 36" wide) with an abutting center seam; the back is edged with printed cotton green check (about 1" wide). All visible seams done by hand. Two hand written inscriptions in ball point pen on reverse: "Made by Edith B/ Made by/ Edith Boutilier Kennedy/Boutiliers Point/ Halifax County Nova Scotia/ Canada 88 yrs age"
InscriptionsTwo hand written inscriptions in ball point pen on reverse: "Made by Edith B/ Made by/ Edith Boutilier Kennedy/Boutiliers Point/ Halifax County Nova Scotia/ Canada 88 yrs age" in lower left corner in blue ball point pen, and "1926 [or perhaps 1928] Edith Boutlilier Nova Scotia Canada"
ProvenanceBefore 2014, sold to Wayne E. Nichols and Tomie Nagano, Dedham, MA; 2014, gift of Nichols and Nagano to the MFA. (Accession date: December 10, 2014)