Skip to main content
Touching Sunbursts quilt
Touching Sunbursts quilt

Touching Sunbursts quilt

1854
Place of CreationPennsylvania, United States
Medium/TechniquePieced printed cotton plain weave top, cotton plain weave backing and binding; quilted
DimensionsHeight x width: 275.6 x 233.7 cm (108 1/2 x 92 in.)
Credit LineFrank B. Bemis Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Elizabeth M. and John F. Paramino Fund in memory of John F. Paramino, Boston Sculptor, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Textile Income Purchase Fund, Joyce Arnold Rusoff Fund, and Alice J. Morse Fund
Accession number2014.1861
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
InscriptionsQuilted (visible on front): "MGM 1854"ProvenanceBefore 2014, acquired by the Pilgrim / Roy Collection, Warner, NH; 2014, sold by Gerald E. Roy to the MFA (Accession date: December 10, 2014).
Regatta quilt
Gerald E. Roy
2009
Nose Gay quilt
Paul D. Pilgrim
1985
Sunburst Quilt
Mrs. Ephraim Scott
1856
Rooster Quilt
Mike McNamara
2015
Quilt: Mosaic
1840–1850s
Nine Patch Quilt
Anna Luca Stansbury
1842