Beaded Evening Bag

1880-1890

  • Titles Beaded Evening Bag (Descriptive)
  • Medium metal, celloloid, and glass beads
  • Dimensions 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (31.8 x 19.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Denson Burnum, Jr. in memory of Chloe ("Two Mama") Logan Adams, 2003.212
  • Work Type evening bag
  • Classification Costume

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Covered urn of solid white jasperware with slightly irregular light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, of calyx krater shape, resting on a square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs around the sides, the round foot with applied white egg and dart motifs and fluting, with egg and dart motifs on the protruding stem, the lower body with gadrooning and two stout, molded handles, the main body with applied white jasper figures of the Muses, with an overhanging lip decorated with egg and dart motifs and a band of laurel leaves and berries, under the overhanging lip is a band of grape vines, the conforming cover with acanthus leaf and lotus motifs and teardrop finial.
Jelly mold and cover of creamware covered with a pearl glaze, the mold in a triangular prism shape on a flat base with truncated corners and raised edge to contain the cover, hand-painted in Wedgwood's Japan pattern, the conforming cover also in a triangular prism shape with truncated corners, left undecorated.
Silhouette bust front, based on the statue of Luther at Worms (completed 1868) by Ernst Rietschel.
Large bowl on smallish round foot, the body constructed of different thin slabs of clay which overlap to form the bowl creating an irregular, somewhat pointy but graceful body, glazed in various mottled shades of brown, tan, ocher, and gray green.