Christening Dress with Slip

About 1900

  • Titles Christening Dress with Slip (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, Swiss embroidery
  • Dimensions 40 in. (101.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.67a-b
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Small teapot of globular shape on three molded lion's paw feet with lion mask terminals, with curved spout and scrolled loop handle, the body composed of a swirl of different colored clays in shades of green, cream, brown and black that together resemble agate stone, the conforming cover with pagoda finial.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Dish, or stand, of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration in a pattern of leafy grape vines with bunches of grapes around the rim of the dish.
The bowl is a flat, open shape that tapers down to the base. The exterior is decorated with small imprinted lines that become more distinguished towards the base. The interior and the lip of the bowl are glazed black. There are some larger, spherical imprints closer to the lip of the bowl.