Sash

United States

1875 - 1900

  • Titles Sash (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Dimensions 143 × 9 in. (363.2 × 22.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1135
  • Work Type sash
  • Classification Costume

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Mahogany frame sofa upholstered in tufted silk damask. Crest rail carved in center with figure of Loie Fuller, claw feet on casters, and floral motif.
Large vase with green rim at top and orange bottom, clear in middle
A press-molded circular pitcher with dark brown glaze, a broad spout, and tall neck decorated in relief with a grapevine motif. The handle is in the form of a greyhound, which appears to be climbing into the jug. The body is decorated in relief with hunting scenes: hounds attacking a stag on one side and mastiffs attacking a boar on the other.
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.