Cleopatra's Puzzle or King Tut's Crown

 

Collection of the Indiana State Museum,

 attributed to Randolph County, Indiana

Date guess: 1880-1940 as it's the popular red and white

combination fashionable in those decades

Another way to look at the pattern. Two blocks of four curved pieces.

Or if you look in the corners of the quilt above for the repeat:

The Chicago Tribune's quilt column published the designs as Cleopatra's Puzzle in 1933. And the Prairie Farmer magazine called it King Tut's Crown. 

Cleopatra & King Tut ---did someone see something Egyptian?

The picture files don't contain many examples and

those like this wool quilt with seam-covering embroidery

and the red & white one could be early 20th century? But then again they could

be 1940.

The few pictures I do have appear to date after the Nancy Cabot publication.

Way After

Polyester double knits

Quilters in Missouri mentioned it in the social column

1935

1955

Let's hope that isn't the same quilt 20 years later.

Here's another of those hard-to-date red & white

quilts that has an odd repeat.

The pattern doesn't intersect in the corners to

make secondary designs like many Drunkard's

Path relatives.

I drew it in EQ8 and tried some different shadings in 2 or 3 colors.

And different sets

If one liked making squares with a quarter circle in the corner....