1875 - 1899 Augusta Duvall's Crazy-patched Parlor Throw
date: label: date made
content: 1875-1899
name: label: maker
content: Bussey, Augusta Elizabeth Duvall
notes: label: Description
content: Augusta Elizabeth Duvall was a botanist and appropriately enhanced her crazy-patch parlor throw with embroidered floral motifs. This is an example of contained crazy-patch; nine 22-inch squares are divided by black velvet ribbon within an outer border of pink-dotted blue velvet ribbon. Each of the blocks contains a silk square, set diagonally, with a large floral design and the corners have smaller floral motifs—all different.
label: Description
content: Augusta Duvall was born about 1843 in Maryland. She married Dr. Thomas C. Bussey about 1900, but they divorced a few years later. She died in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1932.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Marion H. Phelps, Mr. H. Lee Hoffman, and Mr. Charles Hoffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13517
label: accession number
content: 257805
label: catalog number
content: T13517
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk, satin, velvet, ribbon, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk, chenille (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 in x 75 in; 189 cm x 189 cm