A FINE WINDOWPANE CREWELWORK WINDOWPANE BED COVER, PROBABLY NEW ENGLAND, 19TH CENTURY |

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

Height 81 in. by Width 73 in.; 205.7 by 185.4 cm.

with 156 unique flower panels.

Provenance

Bolton, Massachusetts, Skinner, The Paul and Margaret Weld Collection, August 13, 2000, sale 2012, lot 267 (illustrated on back cover);
Vogel Collection no. 684.

Catalogue Note

For a related windowpane bedcover see Antiques June 1953 cover. Another related example is illustrated in Grace Snyder and Jan Whitlock's "Wool Embroidered Blanket" in The American Antiques Show Magazine, p. 85, fig. 7.