Hat

Enid Lee, New York

About 1950

  • Titles Hat (Descriptive)
  • Medium straw, velvet, veil
  • Dimensions 3 × 10 in. Diam. (7.6 × 25.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Margaret Minge Agee, 1986.708
  • Work Type hat
  • Classification Costume

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Shallow hand-carved, trencher-like vessel
Large face jug of red stoneware covered with a beige wood ash glaze that is streaked through with shades of gray, brown, red, white and black, the body bulbous and decorated with a series of six faces around it, with each eye part of one face as well as part of the one next to it, with six noses and six pairs of thick lips, the teeth formed of small stoneware shards, the faces' eyebrows form the shoulder of the jug, which has a long neck and three loop handles, the interior likewise glazed.
Log Cabin quilt, very fragile
Square hand and machine-sewn cotton quilt in a variation of the Pomegranate pattern, the ground a cream-colored cotton with a design of regular clusters of four pomegranate motifs in red and orange sprouting from green vines that are interconnected to form an overall grid pattern, edged with an orange band, the reverse a plain cream-colored cotton.