Gypsy Baron crazy quilt
ca. 1887
Almost anything goes in this quilt: flowers, fruit, wheat, children, fish, stars and a moon-sickle face appear. The title Gypsy Baron helps date the quilt, as it commemorates the operetta of that title composed by Johann Strauss in 1885.
Such a topsy-turvy pattern was sorted out through storytelling. The donor remembers her grandmother unveiling it on the piano as a challenge for all the grandchildren to decipher.
Silk velvet, metallic thread, jacquard woven silk, paint: pieced, embroidered
Gift of Mrs. Jacqueline A. Wood
75.23
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