Quilt, “Everybody” or “Sampler” pattern

Nora Ezell

May 1979

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Velvet jacket and bustle with buttons down front, lace collar and sleeves, beaded flowers and fringe. Stays sewn in.
Silver teapot of bulbous form on a stepped circular foot and with an S-shape spout, engraved on one side of the body with the arms of the Gardiner family, a branch of the Gardiner's Island, NY Gardiners in Boston, the opposite side with the pricked date "1746," which is not contemporary to the piece, the shoulder and hinged lid engraved with Rococo scroll- and lattice work, topped by a wood knop finial with silver pinecone bud, and with loop handle of fruitwood.
Lozenge quilt, red borders and background, dark brown lining, quilted with brown thread in shell patterns
Random flowers quilt on white background.