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Paeonia lactiflora - Garden Peony

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, James Betts Woodblock Print Quilt Top, c. 1840

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) from Sydenham Edwards, Botanical Register, vol. 1, plate 42, 1815

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) from a modern garden

Common Names: Garden Peony, Common Garden Peony, Peony, Chinese Peony, Esculent Peony, White Peony (the wild type is white), White-flowered Paeonia

Description: Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) is a member of the Peony Family (Paeoniaceae). The Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2, vol. 3 recorded that this native of Siberia was introduced into cultivation in Britain in 1784.

Quilts with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony):

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, James Betts Woodblock Print Quilt Top, Object Number1970-194, c. 1840 (This motif represents perhaps the most botanically accurate illustration of Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) flower found on an early chintz due to the accurate inclusion of the reproductive structures)
Shelburne Museum, Floral Chintz Album Bedcover Made by Members of the Townsend, Fuller, Pope, and Mikell Families, Obmect Number 10-151 (1954-412), Art of the Needle: 100 Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum, p. 19, dated 1850-1857

Printed cotton with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony):

None known at this time

Additional Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) Motifs

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) from the Private Collection, Pillar Print Textile Panel with Fancy Machine Ground, c. 1830s (note especially the leaves compared to the leaves from a modern garden peony plant to the right)

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) leaves from a plant in a modern garden

Quilts with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chintz Appliqued Quilt Made by Mary Malvina Cook Taft, Accession Number 1970.288, American Quilts and Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 21, c. 1835-1840 (likely with a different background than shown in the above picture)

Printed cottons with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif :

Private Collection, Pillar Print Textile Panel with Fancy Machine Ground, c. 1830s

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) from the Charleston Museum, Gracy Drummond Quilt, dated 1844 courtesy of the Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina

Quilt with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif:

Charleston Museum, Gracy Drummond Quilt, Object Number 2011.26.1, dated 1844 (even though the flower and leaves are illustrated growing from an arborescent branch, the leaves clearly indicate this is a garden peony rather than a tree peony)

Printed cottons with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif:

None known at this time

Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Furnishing Fabric, c. 1850

Quilts with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif:

None known at this time

Printed cottons with this Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif :

Victoria and Albert Museum, Furnishing Fabric, Object Number T.11-1933, c. 1850

More Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) Motifs

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Quilt with a different Paeonia lactiflora (Garden Peony) motif:

Maryland Historical Society, Pieced and Appliqued Mathematical Star Quilt, Made by Amelia Jane Foster Cobb Bird, Object Number 1983.18, The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition, pp. 34-35, c. 1845