Bobbin Lace

About 1900

  • Titles Bobbin Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions 42 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (108 × 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.11
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

See More of the Collection

Small silver inkwell resting on three fluted, slightly curved legs, with beaded edges, comprised of four parts – a pen tray and stand with attached candleholder (with hook for a snuffer, now missing) and three cut-glass vessels with silver covers for ink and sand, these rest in detachable, pierced silver galleries held in place from below with pins.
Oval tri-color jasper (black, sage green, and white) cameo with white relief featuring the Sacrifice to Diana. Diana being the goddess of hunting and chastity and can be seen with a deer next to her.
A small Bow Dismal Hound seated on its haunches with head turned and tail curved to the left. The dog's white coat is colored in patches of brown. The dog figure is seated on an oval shaped base decorated with three flowers of red, yellow and rust colors with green leaves.
Porcelain figure of a lion with a tan coat, a grey nose, chartreuse-green eyes and an open mouth revealing an iron-red tongue, with a raised left forepaw, semi-recumbent on a mound base applied with yellow florettes and green leaves, mounted on a gilt bronze rococo scrollwork base.