郁金香被褥 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	郁金香被褥
品名（英）	Tulip Quilt
入馆年号	1998年，1998.87.2
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1847 - 公元 1880
创作地区	可能制造于: 宾夕法尼亚（Possibly made in: Pennsylvania）
分类
尺寸	86 x 84 英寸 (218.4 x 213.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这床被子以及收藏中的另外两条（1998.87.1; 1998.87.3）是由罗伯特·E·科尔送给博物馆的，以纪念他的妻子海伦·R·科尔（Helen R. Cole），她是一位狂热的被子收藏家。从这床被子上留下的标签（以及1998.87.1），我们能够确定，1989年10月7日，科尔夫人将两条被子带到了新泽西州切斯特举行的"被子发现日"，由新泽西州遗产被子项目。他们正在寻找有记录的新泽西被子，为1992年出版的一本名为"新泽西被子1777年至1950年"的书做准备。早在 1600 年代，新泽西州就拥有庞大的荷兰社区，他们的传统工艺明显影响了新泽西的建筑和物质文化。郁金香是与荷兰关系最密切的花卉，荷兰负责在 17 世纪在世界范围内普及郁金香。然而，很难将这种十九世纪的郁金香图案与新泽西州的早期荷兰定居者直接联系起来，因为郁金香一直是所有种族背景的被子制造商的流行图案。郁金香设计的许多变化在 19 世纪的贴花被子中被发现;这种特殊的设计，将贴花的三朵郁金香植物镶嵌在斜线上，由窗扇隔开，似乎有些不寻常。每朵郁金香的叶子和茎的绿色和蓝色交替配色方案为图案增添了额外的吸引力。叶子和窗扇的蓝色织物最初可能是蓝绿色的，与蓝色结合使织物绿色的黄色染料已经褪色。花朵明亮的橙色和黄色中心是使用铬染料生产的，铬染料是一种化学染料，于 1840 年代在美国首次制造。这种色彩浓郁的织物在十九世纪下半叶非常受欢迎，可用于被子（但不适用于衣服）。
介绍（英）	This quilt, as well two others in the collection (1998.87.1; 1998.87.3), were given to the Museum by Robert E, Cole in memory of his wife, Helen R. Cole, who was an avid quilt collector. From labels remaining on this quilt (and on 1998.87.1) we were able to ascertain that on October 7, 1989, Mrs. Cole brought the two quilts to a "Quilt Discovery Day" held in Chester, New Jersey by The Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey. They were seeking documented New Jersey quilts in preparation for a book published in 1992 aptly titled "New Jersey Quilts 1777 to 1950."　 Beginning as early as the 1600s, New Jersey had a substantial Dutch community, and their traditional crafts clearly influenced New Jersey architecture and material culture. Tulips are the flowers most closely associated with Holland, the country responsible for popularizing the blooms worldwide in the seventeenth century. It is hard to make a direct link between this nineteenth-century tulip pattern and New Jersey's early Dutch settlers, however, because tulips have been a popular motif for quilt makers of all ethnic backgrounds. Many variations of the Tulip design are found in nineteenth-century appliquéd quilts; this particular design, with the appliqued three-flowered tulip plant set on a diagonal in blocks separated by sashing seems to be somewhat unusual. The alternating green and blue color scheme for each tulip's leaves and stems lends extra appeal to the pattern. The blue fabric of the leaves and sashing could have been a blue-green originally, and the yellow dye that combined with the blue to make the fabric green has faded. The bright orange and yellow centers of the flowers were produced by using chrome dyes, a type of chemical dye first manufactured in the United States in the 1840s. This intensely colored fabric was extremely popular for use in quilts (but not for clothing) in the second half of the nineteenth century.