Woman’s Dress

United States

About 1955

  • Titles Woman's Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium lace, linen, silk
  • Dimensions Overall: 40 in. (101.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Smith, 1981.90
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Tall, baluster-shaped face jug of tan stoneware covered with a darker alkaline glaze, the two dark blue eyes look off into the distance, the two small ears protrude from the sides of the jug, the nose is somewhat flat above a mouth with curled lips and white teeth, the two cheeks and the chin are bulbous and there is a piece of bulbous, glazed clay sticking out from the mouth (possibly a cigarette), a small handle on the backside.
Tall, glass champagne flute with spirally-fluted, conical bowl, in a shade of deep purple that fades to clear at the bottom of the bowl, the clear glass stem is textured, the round foot also of clear glass.
Large face jug of red stoneware and covered with a mottled, opaque teal-blue glaze, the pointed jug with neck on top is covered with a drippy and streaked blue and black glaze that runs down the face alongside the nose, with two dark eyes, the ears implied on the sides of the face, indented at the cheeks, the mouth open and with three large, rounded porcelain teeth.