"Carpenter's Wheel", "Dutch Rose", or "Double Star" quilt

Quilt, “Carpenter’s Wheel” or “Dutch Rose” or “Double Star” pattern

Mary Ann Rouse Thomas

1880-1910

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Floral group comprised of a narrow bud vase of clear glass with a pattern of green and brown threads and cross-hatching, with one upright flower with long, bulbous stem and lavender Jack-in-the Pulpit-shaped flower on top, the lower stem with green cross-hatching, and a large round flower made of clear glass with a powder white glass center applied to the reverse, with yellow and green lines that radiate from the stem outwards to the edges of the petals, with fluted three green leaves, all designed to be placed into the vase.
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"This all-white pitcher is enlived on both sides with relief-molded references to Bacchus. The wine god is portrayed in the guise of a nude child seated amid grape vines and displaying his attributes of a staff and a goblet of wine. These motifs suggest that the pitcher was intended for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages. The assymetrical compostiion of the design and the profusion of ornament – a scrolled medallion embellishing the front and leafage in relief decorating the foot and handle – derive directly from the vocabulary of the Rococo-revival style then at the height of its reign in America." From Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American Porcelain, 1770 - 1920. Exh. cat. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989: no. 26, 119.
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