Quilt, “M’s” pattern

Mary Maxtion

1984-1988

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Tall baluster-shaped jug of tan stoneware, ash glazed with the image of a brown snake wrapped around the body, the snake's skin covered with light dashes made using the clay slip trailing technique, with shaped loop handle.
Four-gallon churn with strap-handle on one side, and lug-handle on opposite side, dark greenish-brown glazed body with darker brown band around shoulder.
Large, square cotton quilt, pieced, in the "Crown of Thorns" pattern, also known as the "Rocky Mountain Road" pattern and since the 1930s, has also been classified as one of the "New York Beauty" patterns, against a white ground a grid of nine blocks defined by orange-red bands with green dogtooth motifs on either side, these same bands form the border of the quilt, the lines intersected by small, square medallions centered with green and orange-red star-like, floral motifs, at the interior corners of each square a half sunburst pattern with serrated edge in the same orange-red fabric, which, when the blocks are placed side by side, form circles at the corners of each block.
Lattice Windows(?) quilt, signed and dated, red lining