Collar

19th century

  • Titles Collar (Descriptive)
  • Medium linen, cotton, lace
  • Dimensions Overall: 52 1/2 x 7 in. (133.4 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.26
  • Work Type collar
  • Classification Costume

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Oval self-shanked black basalt intaglio seal with profile portrait of man's head
Small trumpet vase of white hard-paste porcelain made to commemorate World War I, the front decorated in underglaze blue with the image of a radiant Iron Cross and the date 1914, the reverse with a small three-leaf oak branch and acorn below the date 1914-1916, with narrow blue bands below the lip, around the lower body, and at the foot.
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.
Bust in profile right.