Quilt, “Monkey Wrench” pattern

Dossie Shirley Andoe

About 1920

Titles Quilt, "Monkey Wrench" pattern (Descriptive)
Artist Dossie Shirley Andoe, American, born Lexington, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama 1889 - died 1967, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Medium textiles
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Helen and Robert Cargo, AFI.59.2007
Object Name quilt
Classification Quilts

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Six-Pointed Pieced Star/Double Star quilt

Large, heavy stoneware jar of bulbous shape covered with a rich green alkaline glaze, with applied grapes and vines under the lip and around the reserves, which contain in relief on one side the head of George Washington and on the other the head of Thomas Jefferson, above each head eagles support banners that read respectively "Hurrah for Washington" and "Hurrah for Jefferson," with two loop handles.

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