Coverlet

Melissa Sadler Howton Franklin

1830 - 1860

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Large, hand-sewn rectangular quilt of cotton velvet, cotton and wool, in the Log Cabin pattern comprised of a grid of squares of crushed brown velvet strips and opposing green strips with a single maroon square in the center, with beige edging, the backing in a printed cotton floral fabric in shades of brown and red, repairs have been made throughout with orange and rust-colored velvet and brown cotton.
Country Crossroads quilt
Large stoneware shell-shaped bowl with blue-green glaze on slightly raised foot, on the upper rim the stylized figure of a recumbent mermaid, inside dolphins modeled onto the interior of the bowl, the outside ribbed like a shell, with original pierced "flower frog"
Sunburst quilt