Collar

About 1900

  • Titles Collar (Descriptive)
  • Medium Ayrshire lace on linen
  • Dimensions 20 × 3 3/4 in. (50.8 × 9.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.10
  • Work Type collar
  • Classification Costume

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Delicate silver creamer with low, tub-shaped body resting on three hooved feet terminating in splayed leafy elements, with long extended spout and beaded edge, the double C-scroll handle with small thumb rest.
Portrait medallion in white jasper with black jasper dip on the front only and white relief depicting Dorothea, Lady Banks (1758-1828), wife of Sir Joseph Banks, to right, wearing a draped garment, her hair in rolls and tied with a wide hairband.
Small cast-iron pendant with the portrait bust of Friedrich August I, King of Saxony (1750-1827; 1806 King) in profile right, in beaded gold mount with eye for hanging.
Chatelaine comprised of a hook from which extend three chains – the outer two are made of small faceted cut-steel beads and the center one of larger faceted cut-steel balls, from these hangs an oval two-sided, dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side Aurora – Aurora in a horse-drawn chariot – and on the other a seated woman with her head bowed under a tree before a column, in a simple cut-steel mount to which are attached two large tassels, below this a similar chain and a second two-sided medallion of dark blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of on one side a seated woman with a bow and on the other a classical female figure, in a like cut-steel mount, from this medallion are attached five chains, the two outer are comprised of small, faceted cut-steel beads and end in tassels, the two inner are made of a larger, faceted cut-steel ball and both end in hooks, from one hook hangs a polished basalt seal, or signet, of a classical couple with joined hands, the center chain is comprised of small faceted cut-steel beads and a hook from which hangs a large, ornate two-sided oval pendant of solid light blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of on one side a seated warrior and on the other an intaglio of a classical scene, on a cut-steel swivel mount.