Woman’s Cape

Probably Birmingham, Alabama

About 1930

  • Titles Woman's Cape (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Dimensions 58 in. (147.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Ms. Winifred Mary Gilb, 1985.180
  • Work Type cape
  • Classification Costume

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Tall, glass wine goblet with a purple bowl, fluted and with applied opaque white glass that forms a cloudy, speckled surface within the flutes, the white extends to the stem, forming threads in a lattice-like pattern in the clear glass, the round foot likewise of clear glass.
A press-molded circular pitcher with dark brown glaze, a broad spout, and tall neck decorated in relief with a grapevine motif. 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.
Large, heavy stoneware jar of bulbous shape covered with a rich green alkaline glaze, with applied grapes and vines under the lip and around the reserves, which contain in relief on one side the head of George Washington and on the other the head of Thomas Jefferson, above each head eagles support banners that read respectively "Hurrah for Washington" and "Hurrah for Jefferson," with two loop handles.