Object Details
- Bussey, Augusta Elizabeth Duvall
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Marion H. Phelps, Mr. H. Lee Hoffman, and Mr. Charles Hoffman
- 1875-1899
- ID Number
- TE.T13517
- accession number
- 257805
- catalog number
- T13517
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, silk, satin, velvet, ribbon, cotton (overall material)
- thread, silk, chenille (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 75 in x 75 in; 189 cm x 189 cm
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Quilts
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556432
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-b8d6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
