Coverlet

Alabama

About 1945

See More of the Collection

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.
Square hand and machine-sewn cotton quilt in a variation of the Pomegranate pattern, the ground a cream-colored cotton with a design of regular clusters of four pomegranate motifs in red and orange sprouting from green vines that are interconnected to form an overall grid pattern, edged with an orange band, the reverse a plain cream-colored cotton.
Whiteware dish with silver overlay trim around rim and foot; winged scarab motifs in silver overlay with green and orange overglaze enamel at 12 and 6 o'clock positions; Egyptian lotus motifs in silver overlay at 9 and 3 o'clock.
Tall, glass champagne flute with spirally-fluted, conical bowl, in a shade of deep burgundy that fades to light at the bottom of the bowl, the clear glass stem is textured, the round foot also of clear glass.