Collar

Late 19th/early 20th century

  • Titles Collar (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, Point de Gaze
  • Dimensions 26 × 3 1/2 in. (66 × 8.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.44
  • Work Type collar
  • Classification Costume

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Black jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of John Locke (1632-1704), was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Lilac and white jasperware rectangular box with cover with various classical scenes to lid and sides. On cover is the scene of Icarus and Daedalus, to the sides are scenes of cupids in various poses.
Footed creamer of earthenware covered with a thick, opaque black glaze, with scroll handle and beak spout, the pear-shaped body covered with an applied pattern of leafage and berry decoration, with traces of gilding.
Tall silver coffeepot of elongated pear-shaped form on round, stepped foot, the elegantly curved spout decorated with stylized foliage, the wooden hand two modified C-scrolls with a tightly scrolled thumb rest, the hinged, domed lid with a band of gadrooning at the edge and with a fluted cap-shaped finial, one side of the main body engraved with a fictitious coat of arms above a banner that reads, IN MEMORY OF MISS BARBARA KIRKHAM OB: 10 DEC: 1769