Dress

United States

About 1940

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium fabric
  • Dimensions 57 in. (144.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Margaret Minge Agee, 1986.689
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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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.
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A mold-formed cottage-type vase with central cartouche featuring a polychrome domestic genre scene. A woman in a pink dress, standing at left, cranks a serinette [French for "little canary"], a small barrel organ used to teach songs to canaries. The a birdcage, housing the canary, hangs above the table, upon which rests both the serinette, and a blue vase contain pink flowers. Beside the table, a grey cat sits upon a wooden chair with green upholstery. This was also the subject of a 1751 painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779) entitled "La serinette," now at the Louvre.
Kitty in the corner quilt in reds, oranges, and blues.