Cane

United States

Late 19th-early 20th century

  • Titles Cane (Descriptive)
  • Medium blown glass
  • Dimensions 36 × 5 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (91.4 × 13.3 × 3.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Richard and Terry McFalls in honor of Thelma McFalls and in memory of Paul McFalls, 2008.139
  • Work Type cane
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Pitcher with strap-handle, brown glaze with iridescence (Albany?)
Large "Gunboat Quilt" of brown silk taffeta, at its center an embroidered basket overflowing with appliqued flowers and two tiny strawberries and a small butterfly, surrounded by an embroidered wreath of similar flowers, like flowers adorn each of the four corners, the quilt front is divided by a geometric pattern of two vertical and two horizontal bands of small dark-blue taffeta squares, the back a medium brown polished cotton, the edges bound with blue taffeta.
Tall glass goblet with a bowl of burgundy-colored glass and bands of speckled, textured light burgundy and white on the exterior, the bowl tapers to a bulbous-shaped element and then to a baluster-like stem of clear glass on a round foot also of clear glass, at the bottom of the bowl a small, clear glass dagger is inserted into it creating a dimple from which a burgundy glass, blood-like drip emerges from the point of entry.
Mosaic quilt, makers were all teachers in Dothan public school, tobacco brown and pumpkin yellow