Wedding Dress

United States

1883

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A figural jug depicting an African-American man with exaggerated facial features, particularly his caricatured lips, nose and ears. His curly hair is formed by incised repeating loops, resembling scribbles. He wears a cap, hoop earrings, shirt with a stand up collar (and single visible stud or button), cravat, and a coat with broad lapels and buttons impressed with “J. LEHMAN,” the maker’s name. A large, buckle-like square probably surrounded a paper label for whatever product the jug contained. The figure has arms, but no hands, and is rendered to appear as if his hands are shoved in the pockets of his coat. There are small air holes at the back of each arm to prevent an explosion during firing. The jug’s handle is a shaped like the number 9, and is finished (where the tail of the handle meets the body of the jug) with a mold-formed grape and grape leaf motif found in some of Lehman’s other decorated vessels. There appears to be an oval incised on the bottom of the vessel.
Large star quilt.
Mosaic quilt
Tall glass goblet with a bowl of burgundy-colored glass and bands of speckled, textured light burgundy and white on the exterior, the bowl tapers to a bulbous-shaped element and then to a baluster-like stem of clear glass on a round foot also of clear glass, at the bottom of the bowl a small, clear glass dagger is inserted into it creating a dimple from which a burgundy glass, blood-like drip emerges from the point of entry.