Quilt, “Tulips” pattern

Roberta Jemison

1996

See More of the Collection

Log Cabin quilt
One-half-gallon jar with no handles, brown glaze
"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.
Large quilt of pieced cotton-polyester fabrics, the top with a double border of gray and then pink with on a bright blue turquoise ground a grid of pink squares on an angle with large yellow M's in the center, the back of fabric of Rainbow Brite doll patterns with Rainbow Brite and her pal Lurky, edging in same Rainbow Brite fabric.