Collar

1875 - 1900

  • Titles Collar (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton; embroidery; edging
  • Dimensions Overall: 16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm) Overall1: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1984.70.4
  • Work Type collar
  • Classification Costume

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Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Urania who presided over astronomy, and often holds a compass used by astronomers in her hand, standing in full figure next to a pedestal with a globe at her feet.
Plaster cast of the Portland Vase taken from the mold that was taken from the original vase from which Josiah Wedgwood made his copies, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage.
Small custard cup of solid white jasper with light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper lattice work relief decoration overall, with double twisted handle, the conforming cover with decorative white jasper lattice work on white jasper ground, with flat finial.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Q Flaminius