Quilt

Miss Donnie A. Wiggins

About 1890

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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.
Snail Trail
Large hand-sewn quilt in the "Caesar's Crown" pattern made with a plain cream-colored cotton backing edged in green with a border of tiny brown flowers on an ivory ground and an interior border in a green print, the top of the quilt with a cream-colored ground and a grid of red circles with green spikes and yellow reel centers that together form the image of a kind of crown, three of the circles of brown and cream printed fabric instead of red.
Crazy quilt. Twisted herringbone stitch variation