Quilt, “Spiderweb Star” pattern

Cyatus Fowler

About 1940-1950

  • Titles Quilt, "Spiderweb Star" pattern (Descriptive)@Spider Web and Star (Alternate)
  • Artist Cyatus Fowler, American, Fayette, Alabama
  • Medium cotton
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Helen and Robert Cargo, AFI.52.2007
  • Work Type quilt
  • Classification Quilts

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A mold-formed cottage-type vase with central cartouche featuring a polychrome domestic genre scene. A woman in a grey top with white polka dots and blue skirt, standing at right, tends to a pink parrot with a blue head perched on a tall stand at left. She extends her right arm, touching the bird's outstreched proper left wing. In her right hand, she holds a small basket containing something white, which she keeps to her side. To the woman's right, a table atop which sits a blue vase containing a pink flower.
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