Quilt, “Cactus Basket” pattern

Rachel Mayfield Martin

About 1940

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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."
Grandmother's flower garden quilt.
Tall, baluster-shaped face jug of tan stoneware covered with a darker alkaline glaze, with lopsided ears and applied, prominent eyebrows, the brown eyes protrude from their sockets and are highlighted with white glaze, the nose has large, flared nostrils, the wide mouth shows a goofy grin with six upper, square white teeth, the double lower lip with four square white teeth on each side, with a handle in back, two gray streaks of glaze run down the backside, the entire body with flecks of blue.
Rosecraft Blended basket, shape 234-8"