Dress

1900 - 1925

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, lace, embroidery
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireland, AFI.19.1982.16
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Tri-color diced jasper (green, yellow, and white) bell pull
Faience helmet-shaped ewer with harp-shaped handle and modeled "mascaron" or mask under the lip, painted in underglaze blue camaïeu on white "décor à lambrequin"
Molded, creamware tea canister of squarish shape with truncated corners, transfer-printed in black on both sides with a man with sheep in a landscape, the so-called Good Shepherd pattern, and on the other the image of a couple seated at tea in a landscape with a servant boy, the so-called Tea Party pattern, with domed lid decorated with a printed floral garland, with ball finial.
Wide, simple fruit bowl, Keith Murray shape 3806, finished with a Moonstone glaze. A series of engine-turned concentric rings encircle the top of the bowl, near the mouth. The rings are repeated on the pedestal base.