Quilt Blocks, “The Pin Wheel” pattern

Alabama

About 1950-1960

  • Titles Quilt Blocks, "The Pin Wheel" pattern (Descriptive)
  • Artist Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, United States
  • Medium textiles
  • Dimensions each: 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (29.2 x 29.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Helen and Robert Cargo, AFI.146.2009.1-.15
  • Work Type quilt blocks
  • Classification Quilts

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Unknown pattern
Large stoneware shell-shaped bowl with blue-green glaze on slightly raised foot, on the upper rim the stylized figure of a recumbent mermaid, inside dolphins modeled onto the interior of the bowl, the outside ribbed like a shell, with original pierced "flower frog"
Tall wine glass with a burgundy-colored bowl, the exterior of which is covered with speckled gradations of violet that is darkest at the bottom of the bowl, the long stem carries the burgundy glass from the bowl inside it at the top in the form of a small tornado-like shape, the stem then a slightly translucent, but white glass that merges into an applied flower-like form that opens up to envelope the stem, the flower-like element of deep reddish-purple glass and with spiraling purple and white threads, the bottom of the stem is likewise slightly opaque, the round foot of clear glass.
String quilt