Covered Jar

Thyge Thomasen

1999

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Plain drawer pull
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of John Dryden (1631-1700) facing right. John Dryden was born in Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire the eldest of fourteen children. In 1650 Dryden went to Trinity College, Cambridge.where he studied the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. He graduated in 1654 with his BA, graduating top of the list for Trinity that year. Dryden returned to London during the Protectorate, where he obtained work with Cromwell's secretary of state, John Thurloe. This later helped him publish his first poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display.
Very simple silver serving spoon with long, threaded, tapered handle and oval bowl, at the end of the handle engraved a crest, a rampant lion.
Oval green jasper plaque with white relief of classical female figure carrying a basket of fruit