Brush

  • Titles Brush (Descriptive)
  • Medium plastic, bristles
  • Dimensions 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.947
  • Work Type brush
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Small plain, round box of ivory with a portrait miniature of Madame Récamier (Juliette Récamier) after the painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Louvre, in gold mount.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles III (1716-1788), was King of Spain and the Spanish Indies (1759–1788), after ruling Naples as Charles VII and Sicily as Charles V (1734–1759), kingdoms he abdicated to his son Ferdinand. He was the fifth son of Philip V of Spain, and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he suceeded to the Spanish throne on 10 August 1759, upon the death of his half-brother King Ferdinand VI of Spain, who left no heirs.
Vase of solid light blue and white jasper in the form of three white ruined fluted columns, the center one slightly taller, resting on a light blue rectangular pedestal base with in the center of either side a reserve with a scene of classical figures in relief and on either side of this central reserve an additional reserve with an illegible text, the entire vase modeled to give the impression that it has been recently excavated, is weathered and has become ruined over time with cracks and damage and destroyed sections and with scattered bits of lichen.
Trophy plate of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, with a central vignette of the Aurora in her Chariot surrounded by scrolled ribbon and vine banding, the border with floral festoons terminating at ram's heads, trophies and small figural cameos with classical subjects, with a band of florets around the rim.