Dress

Birmingham, Alabama

About 1915

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium chiffon, satin, bead
  • Dimensions Overall: 51 in. (129.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Ezra G. Sims, Jr. and Kathryn S. Pentzer in memory of their mother, Kathryn W. Sims, 1986.537
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Double face jug of light mustard-brown stoneware, the lower face with wide mouth, slightly open to reveal five teeth, the nose wide and flared, with two large, protruding ears and two green eyes with exaggerated eyelashes below two dark eyebrows, above this face a smaller face with similar features, but blue eyes, behind it the neck, with a loop handle on the backside.
Five-gallon churn with with ear-handle on shoulder and two strap-handles, one above the other, on opposite side
Snail Trail quilt, pink and green, (see other quilt from same family - machine appliqued Princess Feather quilt)
Face jug of brown stoneware covered with a darker alkaline glaze, with two large blue eyes, long nose, and molded and incised hair and eyebrows, the ears are molded flat to the sides of the face, the open mouth reveals six irregular and broken teeth above a little bit of a chin.