Sunburst Quilt
This quilt was made for a trundle bed or a child’s bed. The lower edge is shaped to fit around bed posts. It is composed of twenty full pieced Sunburst pattern blocks, sewn from a combination of imported 1830s English chintz and plain white cotton. The background fabric is a brown chintz, patterned with seashells and flowers in pinks, blues, greens and golds. Many of the pierced blocks use this same chintz to make up the sunburst pattern, but others of the blocks are patterned with four different contemporaneous chintzes. The sunbursts are hand-quilted with white thread in concentric circles, while the outer part of the blocks are quilted with straight lines following the edges of the block.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sunburst Quilt
- Artist: Artist Unknown , American
- Date: ca. 1835
- Geography: Made in Mid-Atlantic, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Cotton
- Dimensions: 79 1/2 × 65 1/2 in. (201.9 × 166.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, by exchange, and Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, by exchange, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.418
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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