Pantaloons

About 1850

  • Titles Pantaloons (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions Overall: 28 in. (71.1 cm) waist: 28 in. (71.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1066
  • Work Type pantaloons
  • Classification Costume

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Cast-iron bracelet comprised of three small links of scrolls bound by beaded elements, the large central link pierced with palmettes, scrolls and foliage, in the middle a rosette mounted on a polished steel plate.
Molded figure of a shepherdess standing in full figure atop an octagonal base with concave corners and highlighted with a brown band and a mound of green ground with a green tree stump as support, the figure wears a yellow gown highlighted with blue and turns toward a small white lamb with brown spots who rests on the top of the stump, her arms encircling it.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in slate blue-gray jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage. The white jasper used for the relief decoration has been given a blue tint prior to being pressed into the molds.
Bust in profile left.