Collar

1900 - 1910

  • Titles Collar (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions 14 × 2 1/4 in. (35.6 × 5.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1111
  • Work Type collar
  • Classification Costume

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Oval perfume bottle tapering at bottom, blue jasper with white relief of Cupid and swans on one side, and Cupid with bow on the other, with gold cap
In an arch with tracery above and below sits a female figure—the patron goddess of industry—among products of the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Sayn—urns, cannon and cannon balls, machine parts, and architectural elements—as an allegory of the iron industry, wearing a crown in the form of a foundry oven, in her left hand she holds a tablet with a crown and the initials "FWE" (ligated) and the year "1826," her right hand holds a stylus, with which she points to the tablet, at her feet is the name of the foundry "Saynerhutte" and a small shield, below the main scene is a band of quatrefoil motifs.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with glazed interior
Bust in profile left.