Floral Motifs on Early Chintz
Agave amica - Double Tuberose
Agave amica (Double Tuberose) photo by Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia.org
Agave amica (Double Tuberose) from the International Quilt Museum, Emmeline Howell Fish Album Quilt,  dated 1843
Agave amica (Double Tuberose) from the Wm. C. Beckert Seedsman Catalog, 1825.  Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons
Common Names: Double Tuberose
 
Description:  Agave amica (Double Tuberose) is a member of the Asparagaceae (Asparagus Family). The Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 281 reported this native of the East Indies was introduced into British cultivation in 1629.  It is now known to have originated in Mexico. 

 
Quilts with this Agave amica (Double Tuberose) motif: 
 
  • International Quilt Museum, Emmeline Howell Fish Album Quilt, Object Number 2005.053.0003, dated 1843
  • International Quilt Museum, Album Quilt Made by the Members of the Freehold Baptist Church, Object Number 1997.007.0441, Chintz Appliqué: from Imitation to Icon, plate 35, dated 1852
  • International Quilt Museum, Chintz Album Quilt Made by the Evangelical Sewing Society of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, Object Number 2008.040.0004, Chintz Appliqué: from Imitation to Icon, plate 17, dated 1846
  • International Quilt Museum, Lydia and Lily Corliss Quilt, Object Number 2008.040.0005, dated 1842-1843
  • Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Fish Family Chintz Album Quilt, Object Number 5254, Historic Quilts of the DAR Museum, pp. 88-91, dated 1842-1844
  • Denver Art Museum, Album Quilt Made by Fish Family Members,Object Number 1985.300, The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950, p. 80, dated 1842-1843.
 
Chintz with this Agave amica (Double Tuberose) motif: 
 
  • None known at this time



   ©  Updated 8/22/2021     Author: Terry Terrell