Handkerchief

1890 - 1810

  • Titles Handkerchief (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions Overall: 20 x 19 in. (50.8 x 48.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1084
  • Work Type handkerchief
  • Classification Costume

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration featuring two oval paterae with sunflowers and beading supporting a floral festoon with two trailing ends containing roses and other flowers.
The dish is am open, slightly convex shape. Its exterior is decorated with small impressed lines that circle the form. The dish's interior is glazed dark red. There are a couple imperfections in the glaze.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Titus (39-81 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name TITUS is impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Polychrome miniature of British Admiral, possibly the Duke of Clarence