Under Petticoat

Prattville, Alabama

Late 19th century

  • Titles Under Petticoat (Descriptive)
  • Medium lace, cotton, tatting
  • Dimensions Overall: 32 in. (81.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Lillie Belle Smith Coine and Joanna Hutt, 1986.531.2
  • Work Type petticoat
  • Classification Costume

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Face jug of tan stoneware with two small ears on either side, two large almond-shaped eyes glazed blue and green, which sit below two oval looped handles on either side of the neck, the nose with prominent nostrils, two flat lips and five white teeth, the face incised with squiggly lines to resemble a beard below the lower lip and with additional squiggly lines on the cheeks, the face additionally highlighted in a brown glaze around the eyes and nose and which is runny on the right side, the handles highlighted in blue glaze which likewise runs down the sides.
A press-molded circular pitcher with gradated medium brown glaze, a broad spout, and tall neck decorated in relief with a hop bine motif. A scalloped border encircles the vessel where the shoulder meets the body. 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.
Quilt, "Lone Star" pattern, Nora Ezell, textiles
Large "Gunboat Quilt" of brown silk taffeta, at its center an embroidered basket overflowing with appliqued flowers and two tiny strawberries and a small butterfly, surrounded by an embroidered wreath of similar flowers, like flowers adorn each of the four corners, the quilt front is divided by a geometric pattern of two vertical and two horizontal bands of small dark-blue taffeta squares, the back a medium brown polished cotton, the edges bound with blue taffeta.