Hat

  • Titles Hat (Descriptive)
  • Medium felt and leather
  • Credit Line Bequest of Sybil Noble Murray, 2000.216
  • Work Type hat
  • Classification Costume

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Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius (15-69 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name VITELLIUS impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Dancing Figure, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Rectangular plaque of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip on the front and the back, on the front in white relief the scene of "Birth of Achilles" with Achilles mother seated on a daybed and her attendant preparing to baptize Achilles with a font.
Bowl and underdish with japan pattern in blue, red and gold. Inscribed on the bowl and underdish are oval seals or panels with Arabic or Persian writing. The short walls of the underdish have two sparse sprigs of flowers and leaves on the outside only, while the inside is inside having an elaborate design of a central circular composition of flowers, leaves and vines. The two oval inscribed seals are composed in the middle of two bands along the inside rim of the underdish. The bowl has elaborate decoration and inscription seals on the outside and inside.