Pitcher

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Central medallion-type quilt with the silhouette of the upper part of the Statue of Liberty in gray-blue fabric on a dark blue ground with a white medallion with the text, "GIVE ME YOUR TIRED YOUR POOR YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE SEND THESE THE HOMELESS TEMPEST TOST TO ME I RAISE MY TORCH BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR" after Emma Lazarus's 1883 sonnet "The New Colossus" and surrounded by the colorful figures of various Native people, enslaved Africans and immigrants hailing from all parts of the world, on either side are stripes of teal-blue fabric and across the top is a strip of light blue fabric, the backing is red and includes the embroidered dedication, "To my mother who taught me how to sew and quilt and to care about the tired, the poor, and the homeless."
Cup or Mug, Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County, stoneware with Albany or Michigan slip and white feldspar glaze, blue pieces tinted with cobalt
Small stoneware creamer of angular shape with small loop handle and ribbed terminal that extends to the base of the creamer, covered with Trout Lake Green glaze.
Silver tea canister with flat hinged lid, the finial in the form of a leaf and berry or nut, the body of scalloped, or serpentine shape and heavily decorated with representations of pagodas, palm trees, fountains and Chinese figures, on the front in a small reserve are engraved the initials FWP.