Cornucopia with Chintz Appliqué Birds and Butterflies
1849
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 18 x 18 1/4 in. (45.7 x 46.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Olive C. Slater
Object Number
1946.44q
This album square with appliquéd cornucopia is typical of a more naïve style that featured the red and green fabrics popular in other mid 19th-century quilts. These included an almost infinite variety of green-ground prints with black figures and numerous Turkey red cottons-plain or figured fabrics dyed a brilliant scarlet color. The technique of dyeing Turkey red was discovered centuries earlier in the East and developed during the 18th century in France. Other colors were few in these quilts, but sometimes they included solid yellow or yellow-ground fabric with a small dark brown or black figure used. Occasionally motifs cut directly from printed chintz, such as birds or butterflies, could be used in combination with the layers of appliqué cut from plain fabrics.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Ms. Olive C. Slater.
Exhibited at The Hecht Company, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 29-October 15, 1971 in connection with exhibit at BMA: Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the 18th and 19th Centuries," Oct. 24, 1971-Dec. 5, 1972. Exhibit catalog does not include any of these album quilt squares. [Receipt from BMA to Hecht Co., A 2100 dated September, 29 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 b, c, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, s, t.]
Exhibited at Hutzler's Department store, Baltimore, MD, November 12th and November 30th, 1971 in connection with exhibit at BMA: Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the 18th and 19th Centuries," Oct. 24, 1971-Dec. 5, 1972. [Receipt from BMA to Hutzler's Department Store, A 2128 dated November 12, 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 b, c, j, k, l, n, q, t.]
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, catalog does not include 1946.44m, Circulated to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981; BMA Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982.
*this square may or may not have been shown in this exhibit.
Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style," 1st rotation, July 3rd, 2008-Jan. 27th, 2009, no catalog.
Exhibited at Hutzler's Department store, Baltimore, MD, November 12th and November 30th, 1971 in connection with exhibit at BMA: Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Great American Cover-Up: Counterpanes of the 18th and 19th Centuries," Oct. 24, 1971-Dec. 5, 1972. [Receipt from BMA to Hutzler's Department Store, A 2128 dated November 12, 1971; Album quilt squares 1946.44 b, c, j, k, l, n, q, t.]
Dena S. Katzenberg, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Baltimore Album Quilts," 1980-1982, catalog does not include 1946.44m, Circulated to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 18, 1980-Jan. 11, 1981; Metropolitan Museum, New York, June 30, 1981-Aug. 30, 1981; BMA Dec. 13, 1981-Feb. 7, 1982.
*this square may or may not have been shown in this exhibit.
Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Baltimore Album Quilts Revisited: A Matter of Style," 1st rotation, July 3rd, 2008-Jan. 27th, 2009, no catalog.
