Frame

Germany

Second half of the 19th century

  • Titles Frame (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 7 1/2 × 6 in. (19.1 × 15.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.312.1
  • Work Type frame
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Pair of vases of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, each on round foot decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves, the tapered body with a pattern of four fluted columns ending in lion's feet, with lion's head's with rings in their mouths at the top of each column, with a band of twisted ribbon around the lower body and a band of ribbon and oak leaves at the top, the main body with floral and fruit festoons between the columns as well as small oval medallions with classical vignettes, including a flying cupid, a detail from Sacrifice to Hymen, Venus bound by Cupid, and a classical figure, the flared lip with the same overlapping acanthus leaf motif as around the foot.
Oval dark blue jasper cypher, back variegated light and dark blue zig-zags
Figure of the poet John Milton standing at a podium on a rectangular base in contemporary dress with drapery, holding in his left hand a scroll upon which a text from his "Paradise Lost" in gilt reading, " ....just and righteous. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
Tall vase of red earthenware covered inside and out with an opaque white glaze that runs thick and thin over the piece revealing the structure of the vase below, the rim left glaze-free, with flecks and speckles throughout.