Dress with Tie Belt

1960s

  • Titles Dress with Tie Belt (Descriptive)
  • Credit Line Gift of Gerda Carmichael, 2000.290a-b
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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The dish in the shape of a shell on a rectangular base with four leafy feet, upon this a uniformed man with raised right fist holding a peasant at the throat.
Oil lamp of black basalt resting on a small square plinth, plain round foot and stem, the lower body fluted, the upper body plain and with three extended openings for three wicks in the form of leafy brackets, the interior with three funnels to feed the wicks through, small beading around the lip, the wooden cover a replacement.
Obverse: Bust in profile right.
Rectangular black basalt intaglio with figure of Melpomene