Quilt, “Diagonal Bars” pattern

Sarah Kizarre

About 1890

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Large, colorful quilt comprised of various fabrics in an irregular grid pattern featuring 13 biblical proverbs, depicted through geometric motifs and images of people and animals, including: People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones; All that glitters is not gold; What goes around, comes around; To enter the Kingdom of God, you must walk a straight and narrow path; A light on a hill cannot be hidden; You have to crawl before you can walk; Why focus on the speck of dust in someone else's eye when you have a log in your own; The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; He who laughs last, laughs best; Mothers do not wear crowns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; Don't just put your foot down, plant it.
Statuette of a robed, bearded man, monkish in appearance, holding a glass mercury thermometer [missing] as walking stick in right hand.
Rosecraft Blended trumpet vase, shape 35-10"
Tall wine glass with a burgundy-colored bowl, the exterior of which is covered with speckled gradations of violet that is darkest at the bottom of the bowl, the long stem carries the burgundy glass from the bowl inside it at the top in the form of a small tornado-like shape, the stem then a slightly translucent, but white glass that merges into an applied flower-like form that opens up to envelope the stem, the flower-like element of deep reddish-purple glass and with spiraling purple and white threads, the bottom of the stem is likewise slightly opaque, the round foot of clear glass.