Quilt, “Snail Trail” pattern

Mildred Thomas Cargo, Quilted by Robert Cargo

1981

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Mosaic quilt, makers were all teachers in Dothan public school, tobacco brown and pumpkin yellow
Blue appliqued flowers on white, over another star patterned quilt.
Man's top hat of beaver felt with a grosgrain ribbon band and brown leather sweatband around the inside, lined in a light yellow silk.
"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.