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Easter Quilt

Easter Quilt

(American, 1872–1960)
1933
Medium/TechniqueCotton, pieced and quilted
DimensionsLength x width: 207.6 × 134 cm (81 3/4 × 52 3/4 in.)
Other (Top edge): 134 cm (52 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by the Textile & Costume Society, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession number2017.490
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
InscriptionsOn two cloth labels sewn to reverse: "Bertha A. Meckstroth/Glencoe, Ill./Casa Tranquilla" Embroidered in backstitch with black thread on reverse: "1933"
Provenance1933, made by Bertha Amelia Meckstroth (1872-1960) in Glencoe, Illinois (possibly exhibited that same year in the Illinois Host House at the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago); Before 2015, acquired by Gerald E. Roy of Warner, New Hampshire from a quilt collector in West Townsend, Massachusetts; 2017, sold by Roy to the MFA. (Accession date: April 19, 2017)