Fan

Attributed to United States

19th century

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Quilt in the "Wagon Wheels" pattern with, on a cream-colored cotton ground, six "wheels" in grid format each comprised of a central round hub sewn of four or more wedges and with 12 spikes made of various, colorful cotton calico prints with yellow and green stripes in between, the multicolored patched lining on the reverse of different calico prints.
Large, square cotton quilt, pieced, in the "Crown of Thorns" pattern, also known as the "Rocky Mountain Road" pattern and since the 1930s, has also been classified as one of the "New York Beauty" patterns, against a white ground a grid of nine blocks defined by orange-red bands with green dogtooth motifs on either side, these same bands form the border of the quilt, the lines intersected by small, square medallions centered with green and orange-red star-like, floral motifs, at the interior corners of each square a half sunburst pattern with serrated edge in the same orange-red fabric, which, when the blocks are placed side by side, form circles at the corners of each block.
Sunburst in Circles quilt
Tall glass wine goblet with a shallow bowl of burgundy glass, the exterior of speckled light burgundy and white glass, the long stem, likewise with a white exterior, in the form of a stylized female without arms and with the two legs joining to form the lower portion of the stem, the round foot of clear glass, a burgundy glass "drip" emerges from the lip of the goblet and runs down the exterior of the bowl and stem to the female form where it divides into two drips.