Dress

Late 19th or early 20th century

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions 22 in. (55.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.950
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Solid light blue jasper water ewer known as Sacred to Neptune with applied white jasper relief, urn-shaped with flat shoulder and round foot with a band of white acanthus leaves on a small square base decorated with four panels of latticework, the stem joined to the body with a band of beading, the lower body with a pattern of stiff leaf motifs all around, with a molded, seated Triton figure sitting on the shoulder of the ewer grasping the spout, below the spout is the head of a dolphin-like sea creature, garlands of seaweed extend from the spout to the double, intertwined handle.
Octagonal dragon lustre bowl with lavender/blue exterior, and pale turquoise pearlized interior. The outside of the bowl is decorated with a golden, endless Greek key pattern along the upper and bottom rim. A solid golden trim is at the top and bottom rim. Two outstretched three-legged, four-clawed golden dragons with scales and a curled tail stretching across three fields of the octagonal bowl, each. The dragons have outstretched tongues, bulging eyes, a mane and some spikes along their backs. The spikes, part of the face, tongue, tail and claws are highlighted with red glaze. The shoulders and hips of the dragons are highlighted with green glaze. The dragons have a cross on their upper jaw and a dragonfly hovers in front of them. The upper, inside, rim is decorated with a repeating oval and diamond pattern. Below are three outstretched, scaled, golden dragons, equally distributed. Different parts of the body are highlighted with purple, red and green glaze. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with golden geometric and floral pattern on purple, red and green glaze.
Black basalt bulb pot molded and shaped to look like a hedgehog with multiple holes in its back to accommodate small bulbs, on a conforming stand.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration with most of a tree on the left side, a boy seated on a stump with a pan flute, a young satyr removing the staff from the hand of young Bacchus, who sleeps beneath a tree wearing a grapevine crown, and a satyr seated on a rock eating grapes, with another partial tree on the right side, all on a thin ground that extends the length of the panel.