Dress

United States

About 1860

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium jacquard silk and lace
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Catherine Woodrow McLean, AFI.217.2009
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Tall, baluster-shaped face jug of tan stoneware covered with a darker alkaline glaze, the two dark blue eyes look off into the distance, the two small ears protrude from the sides of the jug, the nose is somewhat flat above a mouth with curled lips and white teeth, the two cheeks and the chin are bulbous and there is a piece of bulbous, glazed clay sticking out from the mouth (possibly a cigarette), a small handle on the backside.
"Sheraton" style, molded, two pieces, black laminate with silkscreened classical urn motif on back of chair
Pattern is Mariner's Compass; red, yellow, and green on cream background, pencil lines still showing
Pickle Dish quilt