Like a Grid of Signal Flags, Great Old Hand-sewn Doll Quilt in Red and White unsual antique sewing basket The box measures 4 1/4”

The box measures 4 1/4” in diameter x 2 1/2” tall

he worked as a potter in the United States for most of his career

with lots of graphic punch to its orange and green paint job

and—what really makes it for me— hand-lettered “SHAKE” below

loss (I believe) of a couple of gold centers to the blue stars

Like a Grid of Signal Flags, Great Old Hand-sewn Doll Quilt in Red and White unsual antique sewing basket The box measures 4 1/4”With very rare exceptions, I leave full scale quilts to others, but I'm forever looking for great old doll quilts or crib quilts, especially ones with compositions that make them feel as much like paintings as textiles. And this one, with its grid of red triangles, striped in shifting positions, feels to me as if loaded with language, too each square a symbol, and the quilt as a whole delivering some sort of message to be decoded! Relatedly, feels a