Sugar Bowl quilt, or Basket quilt, or Pineapple quilt

Sugar Bowl quilt, or Basket quilt, or Pineapple quilt, circa 1850, quilted in 1867

Where object was made: Delaware County, Ohio and Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Material/technique: piecing; quilting; cotton; appliqué

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. McPherson

Accession number: 1980.0038

Not on display

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"Quilts: Flora Botanica," Jun-2008, Barbara Brackman and Susan Earle
This quilt has a note stitched to the back indicating that the top was brought from Delaware County, Ohio, to Lawrence in 1867 and quilted here. The pieced baskets, popular after 1850, are placed so there is no top or bottom, a view more suited to a bed than a wall.

The quilt owes much of its primitive charm to the spindly vine border. The leggy climber reaching for light seems drawn from the natural world rather than from any lush, imaginary garden. Gloria Donohue captured the naïve quality of the original in updated fabrics.