Cape

1860 - 1900

  • Titles Cape (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, lace, metal, ribbons
  • Dimensions Overall: 15 x 34 in. (38.1 x 86.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1020
  • Work Type cape
  • Classification Costume

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Large, oval, bell-shaped dish cover of creamware, painted in green enamel on both sides with the arms of Abney and Bracebridge (see notes) within a ribbon-tied garland, the lower rim is edged in green and the lower body has a band of dangling laurel leaves in green enamel suspended from pink stems, at the top a pattern of pink and green cabbage leaves surrounds the loop handle, which is edged in green and has a decorative X at the base.
Pyrrhus Presented to Glaucias, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a model by Wedgwood, After a gem by Charles Brown, cast iron
Cupid Riding a Lion, Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron
Rectangular plaque mounted on wood, in the central cartouche Otto von Bismarck as a knight on horseback with three-headed dragon, in the background a landscape with river and castle.