Handkerchief

19th century

  • Titles Handkerchief (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, Chantilly lace
  • Dimensions 18 × 18 in. (45.7 × 45.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Freed in memory of her mother, Esther Loveman Kempner, 1984.335.10
  • Work Type handkerchief
  • Classification Costume

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Pair of tall, footed covered urns in black basalt resting on small square plinths decorated with a repeating geometric pattern on each side, the foot and stems as well as the body above the shoulder and neck are engine turned, the lower body with acanthus leaves that extend upward and the main body with swags of leafy grape vines and bunches of grapes, each has two handles comprised of satyr masks, whose long horns curve up and around and attach to the lip of the urn, with fluted covers with ball finials (not identical).
Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Portrait bust of the poet and historian Friedrich von Schiller in profile right.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) facing left. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; only child of the Duke Of Kent and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe Coburg; born at Kensington Palace, 1819. She was crowned in 1838, and in 1840 married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by whom she had nine children. Victoria had strong likes and dislikes among the politicians of the day, and although she was, on the whole, a constitutional sovereign, she retained a keen appreciation of her own powers.