Floral Motifs on Early Chintz
Passiflora alata - Winged-stem Passion Flower
Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) in a modern garden.  KENPEI's photo via Wikimedia Commons
Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) on the Unidentified maker, Broderie Perse Tree of Life Counterpane detail, 1790-1815. Cotton 96 1/2 x 92 1/2 in.  Collection of Shelburne Museum. 1952-551.
Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 2, plate 66 (1788)
Common Names:  Winged-stem passion flower, fragrant grenadilla, winged passion-flower

Description: Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) is a member of the Passion Flower Family (Passifloraceae). The Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2, vol. 4 recorded that Passiflora alata, native to the West Indies, was introduced into cultivation in 1772. 
 
Quilts with this Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) motif: 
 
  • Shelburne Museum, Broderie Perse Tree of Life Counterpane, Object Number1952-551,  Chintz Quilts:Unfading Glory, p. 34, late 18th Century 
 
Chintz with this Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) motif: 
 
  • None known at this time


                          Additional Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) Motifs
                                                  
Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) from the The Edisto Island Museum, Edisto Album Chintz Applique Spread,  dated 1863  
Quilts with this Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) motif:
  • The Edisto Island Museum, Edisto Album Chintz Applique Spread, "Lowcountry Chintz: The Townsend/Pope Quilt Legacy", Uncoverings 2013, dated 1863 
  • The Alphretta Album Spread in Fig. 12 of Sharon Fulton Pinka, "Lowcountry Chintz: The Townsend/Pope Quilt Legacy," Uncoverings 34 (2013): 85, started c. 1860 and completed 1935 
  • Shelburne Museum, Chintz Floral Quilt Attributed to a Member of the Ridgley Family, Museum Object Number 10-145 (1954-492), The Art of the Needle: 100 Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum, p. 14, Early 19th Century
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Textile Fragment, c. 1830, Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926
Chintz with this Passiflora alata (Winged-stem Passion Flower) motif:
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, Textile Fragment, Object Number 26.265.2, c. 1830




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