Cuff

1900 - 1910

  • Titles Cuff (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions Overall: 2 1/4 x 7 in. (5.7 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1115.1
  • Work Type cuff
  • Classification Costume

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Elegant, simple hot water urn of sterling silver with bright-cut engraving, urn-shaped with two elongated, reeded loop handles on a short stem with round foot mounted on a square plinth with four small ball feet, the frontal spigot with a carved tap, the cylindrical domed cover with a finial in the form of a covered urn, the body, plinth, cover, and spigot with beaded borders, the body decorated in bright-cut engraving with an oval reserve that has been left empty surmounted by a tied ribbon, below the lip a band of repeating diamond and floral motifs.
The seated figure of a woman in unglazed hard-paste biscuit porcelain dressed in classical garb reading a book atop a footed lamp in the form of a canoe-shaped antique oil lamp, this painted with overglaze enamels in a greenish tone that simulates patinated copper (vert bronze), with decorative gilding
Small cast-iron statuette of Napoleon I Bonaparte in officer's uniform with bicorn, his arms crossed and right leg extended, knee slightly bent, resting on undecorated, tall plinth.