Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed antique wooden puzzle Really altogether a very sweet

Really altogether a very sweet group

9 1/8" x 5 13/16"

I really love this old hand holding a ball between two fingers just as an object to set anywhere

19th c at the youngest but I think perhaps a good bit older than that

Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed antique wooden puzzle Really altogether a very sweetTumbling blocks quilts are my favorite so optically compelling, and keeping the eye forever moving around. This piece a fragment or all there ever was I'm not sure consists of hundreds of small fabric squares (most of them silk it appears to me) sewn together, with white basting stitches which would be used to secure the quilt top to a backing still in place; I have not removed it from the frame so am not sure what it was backed with. I rather like