Airborne Acorn

Craig Nutt

1987

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Footed face jug of stoneware covered in an opaque brown glaze, the foot decorated to look like the neck below the head, wearing an open collar and beaded necklace, the face with prominent cheeks, flat nose, large brown eyes and wide eyebrows, the mouth is open with pink gums and white teeth, the hair is formed into several individual braids, the handle is formed from one of the braids.
Album/Friendship type quilt, but with no signatures, found in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, orange, brown lining
Large, roughly square quilt made of cotton feed sacks assembled in a grid pattern of 9 rows, each colorful quilt block made in a different pattern and some blocks are of different sizes, the whole a conglomeration of geometric and floral motifs in soft and subdued colors.
Large face jug of red stoneware and covered with a mottled, opaque teal-blue glaze, the pointed jug with neck on top is covered with a drippy and streaked blue and black glaze that runs down the face alongside the nose, with two dark eyes, the ears implied on the sides of the face, indented at the cheeks, the mouth open and with three large, rounded porcelain teeth.