Baby Shirt

United States

About 1860-61

  • Titles Baby Shirt (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Teresa Thomas Whitfield in loving memory of her grandfather Drayton Bernhard, 1994.22.2
  • Work Type shirt
  • Classification Costume

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"This all-white pitcher is enlived on both sides with relief-molded references to Bacchus. The wine god is portrayed in the guise of a nude child seated amid grape vines and displaying his attributes of a staff and a goblet of wine. These motifs suggest that the pitcher was intended for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages. The assymetrical compostiion of the design and the profusion of ornament – a scrolled medallion embellishing the front and leafage in relief decorating the foot and handle – derive directly from the vocabulary of the Rococo-revival style then at the height of its reign in America." From Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American Porcelain, 1770 - 1920. Exh. cat. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989: no. 26, 119.
Cotton in red, green, yellow and red. Print on white ground. Pieced quilt with four major squares across by three major squares down; white ground with "X" design with leaves at end and four fans in each square; arched quilting, cotton batting.