Silk Boutis circa 1850 - $4950

This fabulous boutis is a beautiful chrysanthemum gold silk on one side and a glazed chintz on the other. It measures 54" x 68". Circa 1850, this quilt is filled with provencal motif in the quilting including urns of flowers, stars, laurel leaves...it really is amazing. There is one area where there is discoloration. It is visible in the large photo and we have photographed it more closely as well.

"Boutis is a nineteenth-century Provencal word with broad definition. Provencal women used it to refer to the corded or quilted needlework technique for making jupons (petticoats), couvre-lits (large bedcovers), vannes or vanhos (small bedcovers), and petassouns (infant pieces). Boutis was also the term given to the blunt-nosed needle used to draw cording through narrow channels of stitching. " Kathryn Berenson Quilts of Provence pg. 132.