Dress

Birmingham, Alabama

About 1930

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium crepe, silk
  • Dimensions 54 1/2 in. (138.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Ms. Winifred Mary Gilb, 1985.183
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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A pitcher with a handle in the form an oak tree bough, its branches extending to form the lip of the vessel–, and foliage – filled with oak leafs and acorns –spreading across the vessel. The pitcher commemorates Connecticut's celebrated "Charter Oak," a pre-revolutionary symbol of American independence. According to legend, in 1687, Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 was hidden in hollow within the tree to prevent its confiscation by the English governor-general.
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.
Statuette of a robed, bearded man, monkish in appearance, holding a glass mercury thermometer [missing] as walking stick in right hand.
Small columnar, slightly tapered chunky paperweight of clear glass with morning glory flowers and daisies along with other foliage, including plant roots, and a honey bee suspended in the middle.