Evening Gown

Arnold Scaasi

Fall 1988

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Rectangular tablet of solid light blue jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration depicting five of the nine Muses—Erato with her kithara, Muse of choral dance and song; Melpomene holding a dagger, Muse of tragedy; Calliope writing, Muse of epic poetry; Thalia holding a comic mask, Muse of comedy; and Urania next to her globe, Muse of astronomy.
Small pipe head of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration of leafy vines and acanthus leaves and around the body two identical images of Neptune with a female mask in between, the lower body missing.
Tall creamware flat-back figural group of abolitionist John Brown with two small African-American girls in white dresses on an oval base with the name JOHN BROWN on the front, the skin of the girls glazed dark brown, the hair black, Brown's beard glazed brown and his cheeks rosy, otherwise his suit is white with details picked out in bronze lustre, his shoes black.
Footed bowl of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief, the foot with a band of bound reeds and beading, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaves all around and the main body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series, including women and children at play in a landscape with trees and birds and a dog on a stippled ground, with a band of guilloche below the lip.