Dress

1900 - 1925

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium chiffon, bead
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireland, AFI.19.1982.17
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Creamware sweetmeat dish of a creamy yellowish color, shell-shaped with shell edge highlighted in magenta enamel, with shell scrolled handle likewise highlighted in magenta and a hand-painted magenta floral sprig in the well, resting on two stout conical feet.
Small, slightly irregular rectangular tablet with the bas relief image of Vulcan forging the armor for Achilles, in the center stands Vulcan swinging his hammer while another holds a shield on the anvil, in the background are two other figures swinging their hammers, at Vulcan's feet lies part of a suit of armor and on the left sits Venus in Achilles's chariot, classically draped, her body turned toward Vulcan and her left hand brought to her chin, at her feet stands a small, winged Cupid holding Achilles's helmet aloft in his two hands, in the background is the fiery forge on the right and a landscape visible through the brick arches in the center and left; the surface has a slight bronze patina.
Laureate head in profile right.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures, all on a thin ground.