Dress and Belt

Arnold Scaasi

1994

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The dish is am open, slightly convex shape. Its exterior is decorated with small impressed lines that circle the form. The dish's interior is glazed dark red. There are a couple imperfections in the glaze.
Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with blue jasper dip and applied white and yellow jasper relief decoration, the cup slightly tapered and with a band of acanthus leaves around the lower edge, the main body engine-turned to create a blue and white checkerboard pattern with applied yellow quatrefoils on the white squares, with a band of laurel leaves and berries running horizontally just below the rim, with white leaf-molded handle, the conforming saucer with a plain blue well and band of laurel leaves running around it, the rim with the same blue and white checkerboard pattern with yellow quatrefoils on the white squares, a band of acanthus leaves around the edge.
Candleholder of black basalt in the form of a bearded, naked Triton with seaweed clinging to his thighs sitting atop a rocky base and holding in both hands a whorled conch shell that functions as the candleholder.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief of Cybele in a chariot drawn by lions, in ebony frame