Scarf

United States

  • Titles Scarf (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk with printed decoration
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Margaret B. W. Tent, AFI.441.2010
  • Work Type scarf
  • Classification Costume

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Large round, clear glass Cahaba Lily flower with a mottled, light-green stem and opaque white center with green and yellow accents in the form of six tentacles extending from the center and six smaller yellow blobs around the center of the flower.
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.
Pine burr or petal quilt
Rectangular quilt in the "Sunbonnet Sue" pattern, with navy blue polka-dotted background fabric with light yellow border, upon which a series of Sunbonnet Sues in a variety of cotton calico, some in silhouette against the background, others against a light pink floral piece of fabric, each Sue embroidered with the name of a woman or man, with central inscription: 178 GIRLS/NO TWO/JUST ALIKE/EXCEPT THE/TWINS FIND/THEM. The back of yellow cotton with orange floral pattern and same light yellow border.