Class #2: Art and Design in the Colonial Era (1600s-1861)
By Chenoa Baker
Ceremonial Drum Found in Virginia (perhaps made in Ghana in 1700), 1730-45, wood, deerskin, plant fiber, 16 x 11 in.
Colonoware
Face Jugs
Kaolin
Gullah/Geechee Basket Weaving
David Drake’s Pottery
Thomas Commeraw
Slave Cabins
Drayton Hall Plantation, 1744, wrought iron details, Charleston, SC
Drayton Hall Plantation, 1744, wrought iron details, Charleston, SC
Thomas Jefferson’s Estate, Monticello (1796-1809), Charlottesville, VA
Armchair attributed to John Hemmings, c. 1816, mahogany
Richard Poynor. Poynor Armless Sewing Rocker. ca. 1855.
Peter Bentzon, Teapot, c.1817, silver and wood, ~7 x 12 x 6 in.
Celestin Glapion, Armoire, c.1790-1830, Cuban mahogany
Corn Husk Dolls
Corn Husk Dolls
Dinah Miller, Foremother of Gee’s Bend Quilters in Alabama
Thomas Day
Elizabeth Keckley
Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Lincoln’s dresses, 1860s, velvet, satin, lace, 60 x 48 in.