Quilt, “Harvest Star” pattern

Alabama

About 1950

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Cotton in pink, green with yellow background; star design, hand sewn.
Tall wine goblet with a dark pink bowl, fluted and with applied opaque white glass that forms a cloudy, speckled surface within the flutes, the white extends to the stem, forming threads in a lattice pattern in the clear glass, the round foot likewise of clear glass.
Carnelian II vase, shape 310-7"
Large, square quilt made of cotton feed sacks in the form of a grid of 25 blocks, the ground fabric of each block in shades of green, the central blocks with the image of candy in wrappers, the two outer rows of green floral prints, the fourth block down in the far left outer row of a darker green-ground fabric, in the center of each block is a colorful wheel comprised of a series of radiating arms or rays stemming from a central medallion with a small yellow star in the middle, the grid and border defined by a floral fabric in a different beige-green shade.