Head Cover

1875 - 1900

  • Titles Head Cover (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, ribbon, silk
  • Dimensions Overall: 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.981
  • Work Type head cover
  • Classification Costume

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile of the Duke of Edinburgh
Small cast-iron statuette of Napoleon I Bonaparte in officer's uniform with bicorn, his arms crossed and right leg extended, knee slightly bent, resting on undecorated, tall plinth.
Covered chocolate cup and saucer of undecorated white stoneware, the cup footed and goblet shaped with two double scroll handles, the conforming cover with flat finial, the saucer molded with a slight indent in the middle to hold the cup, the interior of the cup is lapidary polished and the underside of the cover is glazed.
Dress sword, or rapier, with scabbard, the blade of steel and etched in a pattern of scrolling foliage, the hilt of silver, the guard and pommel elaborately engraved in a floral and strapwork pattern, the grip and pommel set with small Wedgwood blue and white jasperware medallions in ropework mounts, four on each side with on side 1) Jupiter or a young warrior; Medea rejuvenating the head of Jason’s father; classical male figure; Minerva; and on side 2) unidentified; Andromache mourning the death of Hector; Demeter searching for her daughter Persephone; Bacchanalian scene; the sewn parchment scabbard with steel tip and mouthpiece, the mouthpiece set with an oval blue and white jasperware medallion with the Muses of painting and poetry mourning the death of the Swiss poet Solomon Gessner (1720-88).