Large, square cotton quilt, pieced, in the "Crown of Thorns" pattern, also known as the "Rocky Mountain Road" pattern and since the 1930s, has also been classified as one of the "New York Beauty" patterns, against a white ground a grid of nine blocks defined by orange-red bands with green dogtooth motifs on either side, these same bands form the border of the quilt, the lines intersected by small, square medallions centered with green and orange-red star-like, floral motifs, at the interior corners of each square a half sunburst pattern with serrated edge in the same orange-red fabric, which, when the blocks are placed side by side, form circles at the corners of each block.

Quilt, “Crown of Thorns” pattern, also called “Rocky Mountain Road” or “New York Beauty”

Lelia Rawls Porter

1933

Titles Quilt, "Crown of Thorns" pattern, also called "Rocky Mountain Road" or "New York Beauty" (Descriptive)
Artist Lelia Rawls Porter, American, 1881 - 1964
Medium cotton
Dimensions 78 × 75 1/2 in. (198.1 × 191.8 cm)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Fashion Group, Inc., Birmingham in memory of Mary S. Faust, 1985.384
Work Type quilt
Classification Quilts