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Floating Bars Quilt

Floating Bars Quilt

about 1940
Object PlacePennsylvania, United States
Medium/TechniquePieced wool plain weave top, wool plain weave back and binding; quilted
DimensionsHeight x width: 200 x 208.9 cm (80 x 83.5in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Hanne and Jeremy Grantham, Jane and Robert Burke, an anonymous donor, Jane Pappalardo, Lynne and Mark Rickabaugh, Carol Wall, Heidi Nitze, Ruth Oliver Jolliffe, and Mrs. Robert B. Newman, and funds by exchange from anonymous gifts, a Bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, Gift of the Estate of Annie B. Coolidge, Gift of Mrs. John Dane, Gift of Louis H. Farlow, Alfred Greenough Collection, Gift of M. M. Greer, Gift of Mrs. Chester A. Hoefer, James Fund, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Karlin, Gift of Miss Mildred Kennedy, Gift of Francis Stewart Kershaw, Gift of Mrs. Bliss Knapp, Gift of Mathias Komor, The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection, Gift of Miss Louise M. Nathurst, Gift of Mrs. George N. Northrop, and Gift of Mrs. Albertine W. F. Valentine, residuary legatee under the will of Hervey E. Wetzel
Accession number2011.86
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceBy 1980, with David Wheatcroft, Pennsylvania; 1980, sold by Wheatcroft to Catherine Anthony, Texas; 2010, with Gerald Roy; 2011, sold by Roy to the MFA (Accession date: March 23, 2011)