Taas  American show TAKE TWO

 

MIDDLE SIZE ONLY

 

DAVID COOK FINE AMERICAN ART, Denver, Colo. — Pictorial basket, Apache, circa 1890, 22 inches high and 23½ inches wide. It is ex-collection Favell Museum, Klamath Falls, Ore.

 

DAVID COOK FINE AMERICAN ART, Denver, Colo. — Second phase variant chief’s blanket, Navajo, late Classic period, circa 1865, measuring 4 feet 7 inches by 5 feet 8½ inches.

 

DAVID COOK FINE AMERICAN ART, Denver, Colo. — Germantown pictorial weaving, Navajo, circa 1890, 6 feet 7 inches by 5 feet 10 inches.

 

JAN WHITLOCK, Chadds Ford, Penn. — Collection of carved violin ends.

 

JAN WHITLOCK, Chadds Ford, Penn. — Detail of an Eighteenth Century pocketbook.

 

JAN WHITLOCK, Chadds Ford, Penn. — Embroidered bird stool.

 

JAN WHITLOCK, Chadds Ford, Penn. — Needlework still life, basket of fruit.

 

LAURA FISHER, New York City — Early appliqué quilt, diamond medallion with pineapples, 88 by 96 inches, cotton, circa 1850, a masterpiece of quilting and image.

 

LAURA FISHER, New York City — African American denim one-patch strip quilt, pieced of denim work clothes in an intriguing weathered patina.

 

LAURA FISHER, New York City — Alphabet sampler, “Belinda Underwood, Columbus, Dec. 21, 1820,” in unusual blue threads on white, with verses.

 

LAURA FISHER, New York City — “72 pieced patterns” sampler quilt, a striking variety of geometric designs in jewel tone colors, silk, circa 1880.

 

LAURA FISHER, New York City — Horse needlepoint table mat, Amish, stars and sawtooth borders, wool, circa 1900.

 

LAURA FISHER, New York City — Early New England floral rug, serpentine leaf border, burnished shades of red, gold, ochre, khaki and cream. It dates circa 1860.