Handkerchief

1780 - 1860

  • Titles Handkerchief (Descriptive)
  • Medium linen; silk
  • Dimensions 9 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (24.8 × 24.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Freed in memory of her mother, Esther Loveman Kempner, 1984.335.31
  • Work Type handkerchief
  • Classification Costume

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Oval basalt medallion with portrait of David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936) born in Nantwich Stapeley he grew to become a important Royal Navy officer fighting in the Madhist war and the Boxer Rebellion and later becoming the commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. He was awarded many high ranking medals and became a Member of the Order of Merit and given the title of Earl Beatty in 1919.
Square lab trial for a black jasper plaque with white relief of Thalia. Thalia is one of the nine Muses. She is the muse of comedy and holds a mask and a shepherd's crook modelled by John Flaxman in about 1776
Silhouette head front.
Small cast-iron filigree cross pendant with a small, central cast-iron medallion with the image of the Madonna of the Chair after Raphael in a gold mount.