Dress

About 1920

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Octagonal tri-color jasper (sage green, dark blue, and white) cameo with white relief of Marcus Scoevola before King Porsena, featuring three warriors surrounding a fire, diana the huntress sitting on a chair being tended to and another soldier sitting on a chair.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior base was first glazed a mustard/khaki color that is mostly covered by brushes of dark and light brown glaze, most prominent around the center of the vase. There are splotchy areas of brown o nthe upper half the vase. Around the vase's lip and its base are rings of brown glaze. The exterior has impressed, horizontal lines around the vase's form, irregular in both size and placement on the form. The vase's interior and lip are glazed dark green, with a dripping glaze in the interior.
Oval plaque of white jasper with blue jasper dip on the front and back, on the front with in white relief a variation of "The Discovery of Achilles" featuring a kneeling female, daughter of Lycomedes, grabbing Achilles leg, Achilles with sword and shield, and Menelaus with helmet at his feet, reaching for his sword.
Oval carnelian intaglio with profile of bearded man's head