Quilt Blocks, “Bowtie” pattern

Bentley, Alabama

About 1880

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Face jug of tan stoneware with two small ears on either side, two large almond-shaped eyes glazed blue and green, which sit below two oval looped handles on either side of the neck, the nose with prominent nostrils, two flat lips and five white teeth, the face incised with squiggly lines to resemble a beard below the lower lip and with additional squiggly lines on the cheeks, the face additionally highlighted in a brown glaze around the eyes and nose and which is runny on the right side, the handles highlighted in blue glaze which likewise runs down the sides.
Paneled vase with top-heavy hourglass form, becoming narrower from the base upward then gradually expanding in width to the rim. The foot of the vase consists of flared triangular corners resembling the wings at the base of a rocket. Glass color is Forest Green.
Pineapples quilt in green, yellow, and brown, with blue border.
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.