Three Georgia Quilts and One Bolt of Fabric

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American & Southern | December 5, 2024

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Dec 5, 2024

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Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia: to include early Southern pottery with Edgefield, Georgia and Alabama examples as well as a Lanier Meaders face jug; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art work by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Kraft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com

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• Lot Description

  Mary R. Shell, Madison, Morgan County, Georgia, 1930, pieced quilt, cotton, “Circle Saw” pattern, 75 x 62 in. overall

  Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 138, cat. no. 433, Burrison writes, “This unique design was inspired by circular blades at the sawmill where the African American maker’s husband worked. The “teeth” are made from sewing scraps; the top was dyed with red clay and salt “on a cloudy day, so the color is cloudy.”; 

  Georgia, late 1800s, pieced and appliquéd quilt, cotton, “Cotton Boll” pattern, 78 x 69-1/2 in. overall

  Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 138, cat. no. 434, Burrison writes, “Wear of the pattern’s colored material reveals that it was stitched onto the white top.”; 

  Ms. Sidney Fowler, Blount County, Georgia, 1870s, fabric, cotton, plaid pattern, 89 x 33 in. overall. 

  Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 136, cat. no. 406, Burrison writes, “This bolt of homespun, eight yards long, was stored away just as it came off the loom, never to be used for warm-weather dresses or shirts.”; 

  Annie B. Howard, Madison, Morgan County, Georgia, 1957, pieced quilt, cotton, “Brick Work” and strip pattern, 82-1/4 x 77 in. overall

  Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 138, cat. no. 433A, Burrison writes, “This African American quilt was made as a light cover, its thin middle layer apparently a quilt top. With its framed center and improvised strip border, Anglo-American and African American design elements are combined.”

  Illustrated: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, plate 13, description on pg. 138, cat. no. 433A.

  Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024

  Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

• Provenance

  From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

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  staining, loose threads, wear and loss to top layer, condition consistent with age and use