Hair Piece

  • Titles Hair Piece (Descriptive)
  • Medium hair, comb
  • Dimensions Overall: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1139.1
  • Work Type hair piece
  • Classification Costume

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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 front, holding the Bible. Reverse: Luther with his Ninety-Five Theses at the door of the All Saints Church in Wittenberg.
Small porcelain snuff box with gilt metal mounts, cartouche-shaped and painted around the exterior sides with figures in a continuous landscape and on the top of the lid with scenes of men on horseback in landscapes, the lid with an additional gilt shell-and-scroll border, the underside painted with a scene of ladies and gentlemen by a fountain, the interior lid decorated with the scene of an amorous couple in a landscape with servant, with gilt metal mounts.
Bust in profile right.