Quilt, “Double Wedding Ring” pattern

Clara Mae Potts

About 1970

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Face jug of brown stoneware covered with a darker alkaline glaze, with two large blue eyes, long nose, and molded and incised hair and eyebrows, the ears are molded flat to the sides of the face, the open mouth reveals six irregular and broken teeth above a little bit of a chin.
Snakes with cowrie shell eyes are repeated throughout this colorful and large quilt representing the temptation of Eve by Satan in the Garden of Eden. A single red apple is depicted at the center of the quilt.
Creamer, Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County, stoneware with Albany or Michigan slip and white feldspar glaze, blue pieces tinted with cobalt
Alabama trees quilt, made by Nora Ezell with senior citizens of Panola, Sumter County, Alabama