Storage Jar

Sterrett, Shelby County, Alabama

1880-1910

  • Titles Storage Jar (Descriptive)
  • Medium glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions 10 1/4 x 6 in. (26 x 15.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Weissman-Sellers family in honor of Nancy Stone, AFI.467.2010
  • Work Type jar
  • Classification Containers

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Pineapples quilt in green, yellow, and brown, with blue border.
A mold-formed cottage-type vase with central cartouche featuring a polychrome domestic genre scene. A woman in a pink dress, standing at left, cranks a serinette [French for "little canary"], a small barrel organ used to teach songs to canaries. The a birdcage, housing the canary, hangs above the table, upon which rests both the serinette, and a blue vase contain pink flowers. Beside the table, a grey cat sits upon a wooden chair with green upholstery. This was also the subject of a 1751 painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779) entitled "La serinette," now at the Louvre.
Small columnar, slightly tapered chunky paperweight of clear glass with morning glory flowers and daisies along with other foliage, including plant roots, and a honey bee suspended in the middle.
Large parlor sofa of laminated and carved rosewood in the so-called "Fountain Elms" pattern, with curved back of scrolling cornucopia leading to an urn with roses and other flowers at the center crest rail above a basket of flowers, scrolling foliage and birds with bunches of grapes at each side with similar basket of flowers, scrolled armrests and cabriole legs, the seat rail with carved flowers at center, on casters, with modern red silk damask upholstery.