Cap

1900 - 1925

  • Titles Cap (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions 5 × 6 in. (12.7 × 15.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.931.2
  • Work Type cap
  • Classification Costume

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Teapot and associated stand of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the teapot raised on round foot decorated with bound reeds, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaf motifs and the main body with on one side the image of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other Sportive Love, or the figure of a young maiden with a cupid balanced on her toe, both against a stippled ground, a band of guilloche runs around the pot at the shoulder, with laurel leaf and berry-molded spout and double, leaf-molded conjoined handle, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and a large draped cherub as finial, the stand with overlapping acanthus and anthemion motifs.
Round blue jasper plaque with white relief of boy blowing horn, riding on ram, possibly meant to represent saturn, broken and repaired
Hollow lamp or candelabrum drum of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration of four small scenes including the Three Graces, Apollo, Nike or Nemesis at an altar, and an unidentified scene of a seated woman on a pedestal with a man making an offering, at the top a double band of oak leaves.
Covered jar of creamy, glazed stoneware of cylindrical shape with an indented band around the main body about one-third down from the top with which to grip the jar, the lower body truncated to form a narrower foot, the recessed, flat cover with mushroom finial, the entire jar covered with an irregular, mottled glaze in shades of green, brown and beige, the cover with a uniform tan glaze.