Whale Oil Lamp

South Boston Flint Glass Works, Phoenix Glass Works

1813-1830

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Early block quilt of upholstery and drapery fabrics, "made before I know how" with her aunt.
Double face jug of light mustard-brown stoneware, the lower face with wide mouth, slightly open to reveal five teeth, the nose wide and flared, with two large, protruding ears and two green eyes with exaggerated eyelashes below two dark eyebrows, above this face a smaller face with similar features, but blue eyes, behind it the neck, with a loop handle on the backside.
Endless stairs quilt. Light colored fabric on lower left has printed, " Enterprise AL"
Large quilt in a variation of the "Whig's Defeat" pattern, on a cream-colored cotton ground a grid of twelve squares each enclosed in a pattern of double bands of repeating nailhead, or dogtooth, motifs in red cotton, at each corner an eight-point star in alternating orange and red, in the center of each square a cream-colored diamond on light blue ground with half-circle notches at each corner highlighted by a band of like nailhead motifs also in red, the backing cream-colored cotton, edged in red.