Short day coat

  • Titles Short day coat (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Credit Line Bequest of Sybil Noble Murray, 2000.207
  • Work Type coat
  • Classification Costume

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Round, framed basalt plaque of Chief Blackhawk facing left, Sauk and Fox Tribe, 1767-1838, The First Americans series
Cup-shaped bowl. The bowl's exterior is partially glazed and decorated with irregular black bands on top of a brown coat that varies in pigmentation intensity. The lower half of the bowl is glazed more consistently and the lower black bands have a drip-like quality to them and are also more uniform in size and spacing on the form. The upper half of the bowl contains unglazed black bands that are indented in most parts, creating a rough texture. The lip of the bowl is white and unglazed and the bowl's base is glazed and white. The bowl's interior is glazed irregularly and is primarily mustard, with areas of unglazed bone china showing through.
Oval medallion of white jasper with green dip and white bas relief of the "Bourbonnais Shepherd" – a young man seated under a tree with a small sheep in his arms and a small dog looking on – mounted in a steel bracelet, the medallion held to the face with prongs, the surrounding border engraved with crosshatching and on either side a simple flower with leafy motifs, the band is attached to the face with hinges and is engraved with a stippled border and on either side a triangle with similar leafy motifs, with adjustable hook and chain clasp.
Large, oblong vase of heavy, beige glazed stoneware, the sides are rounded and the opening at the top is narrow, each end of the vase is decorated in an abstract, semi-geometric pattern in shades of gray, white, rust, black, and beige, the central body is decorated on each side with a broad stripe of mottled, almost metallic, gray glaze.