Quilt, “Bowtie” pattern

Clive Jones

About 1900

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Cup or Mug, Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County, stoneware with Albany or Michigan slip and white feldspar glaze, blue pieces tinted with cobalt
Two-sided random blocks quilt in denims and other fabrics.
Large quilt of plain and printed cotton fabrics in the "Snowball" pattern, the top with a pattern of small squares of different fabrics pieced in a grid pattern and on these are sewn rows of round, orange "snowballs" giving the quilt the look of an optical illusion, bordered on the two short sides with a band each of orange and blue fabrics (the blue is very faded) and on one long side edged in orange and on the other long side a blue band edged in orange, the backing of plain, cream-colored cotton.
Brown satin-backed bed quilt in the "log cabin" pattern pieced of wool in shades of green, blue, herringbone, pinstripe, gray, beige, and black, some fabrics patterned, some not, with red block squares