Coverlet

Louisa Esther Moor Teaver

1889 - 1890

Titles Coverlet (Descriptive)
Artist Louisa Esther Moor Teaver, American, 1866 - 1948
Medium cotton and wool
Credit Line Gift of Phyllis Vander Velde in memory of her grandmother, Myrtle Teaver Carlisle, 1994.273
Object Name coverlet
Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Large, purple glass flower with green and darker purple pattern radiating from the center and a design of yellow U-shapes around the edge of each petal, the reverse with applied white glass, with gray glass rod stem.

Souvenir plate with blue transfer-printed decoration. Border reading BIRMINGHAM / THE INDUSTRIAL CITY BEAUTIFUL (top and bottom), with industrial skyline frieze (left and right). At center of plate, full-length view of Vulcan on pedestal with banner caption at left: WHERE VULCAN, / THE MIGHTY MAN / OF IRON, STANDS

Tall, glass champagne flute with spirally-fluted, conical bowl, in a shade of deep burgundy that fades to light at the bottom of the bowl, the clear glass stem is textured, the round foot also of clear glass.

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