Plath, Sylvia.

A similar drawing of a corn vase girl appears in Plath's journals for June 1957 to June 1960 (see The Journals, Appendix 11, p.614). The corn vases play a central role in at least two short story outlines by plath ('Mama McFague & the Corn Vase Girl' or "A House for Mama McFague"), which appear in her journal:

[21 August 1957:]...A story: told with infinite detail, but must move: The corn vases...Mrs. McFague, a stolid, good-hearted Cape Codder, indefatigable talker...Sense of her simplicity, yet she hides riches: antiques: two corn vases in trailer, amid poverty. Lazy, unimaginative, sickly husband...visitors descend on them...Mrs. McFague comes back to find children playing with corn vases, utter weakminded wills of parents. Main theme: parental weakness...

...No house -- lives in trailer in summer - hardships: love of flowers...Guests -- locusts in harvest time. Ratty kids. End of rope. Kid breaks one of McFague's statues. Now she can bear to sell the other. Love of beauty. Girl broken...

This drawing also appears to be a representation of an actual object, described in all its colours in Plath's journal (next to descriptions of other items examined closely, such as a "Pine Cone" or "Spaulding's Trailer"):

...About two feet high -- corn sheaf, vase, furled center of main corn stalk, corn-yellow grains, row of 3, corn on left, handle -- husk, lined -- deep green-yellow tip...Girl -- charming, smiling brown face, right arm bent, holding pink string of wicker basket, complete to tear in straw on her back, blue blouse & skirt with pink & yellow border, wide pink sash, yellow apron full of green-leaved-vegetables held up & to side in left sheathed knife hanging at right hip -- green leaves scrolled about yellow-brown base -- corn grains -- pink outlined -- inside of vase -- pale turquoise: black hair parted in middle, down over right shoulder -- pink scarf, fringe draped over head...[The Journals, Appendix 11, p.613]