Live Auction 5693Christie's Interiors
A 'GRANDMOTHER'S FLOWER GARDEN' QUILT
Lot 309

A 'GRANDMOTHER'S FLOWER GARDEN' QUILT

ENGLISH, DATED 1847

Closed30 March 2010

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GBP 625

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A 'GRANDMOTHER'S FLOWER GARDEN' QUILT
ENGLISH, DATED 1847
composed of dress silks made up into flower patches on a honey yellow silk ground, with wide lilac silk borders
100 x 92 in. (254 x 233.7 cm.)
Inscribed to the back 'To M.H. 1847'

Braddyll Family Collection, Conishead Priory, Cumbria.
Made by Frances (b.1805), Margaret Frederica (b. 1808) and Sarah Jane (b.1811) Braddyll, daughters of Thomas Richmond-Gale-Braddyll, Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards (1810) and High Sherriff of Lancashire (1821.)