Lace

1800 - 1825

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium Brussels applique lace
  • Dimensions 32 × 4 1/2 in. (81.3 × 11.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Biddle W. Worthington, Jr., in memory of Anita Eustis Worthington, 1987.210.6
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Staffordshire transfer-printed salt-glazed stoneware scalloped plate, printed in red with a fable subject "The Lion, the Fox, and the Wolf" within a diaper and cartouche molded border and brown-edged rim
Bust slightly left.
Three-piece garniture of solid white jasper with applied green jasper relief decoration, composed of a larger covered urn-shaped vase, footed, with elongated ear-shaped handles that terminate in rams' heads, the body decorated with a green arabesque of scrolling vines and flowers, with inset cover with holes for flower stems and a candle holder that fits into the center of the cover, and two smaller side vases each with round foot decorated with green acanthus and lotus leaves and a Greek key motif, the upper body with a pattern of applied green flowers around below a slightly protruding shoulder decorated with acanthus leaves, the cover with holes for flower stems.
Large bulbous potpourri vase of black basalt decorated overall with bright colored enamels in the Chinese style with chrysanthemums and other flowers, exotic foliage and a rocky ground, birds and a butterfly, with two small loop handles, the pierced cover with an acorn finial, edged in red.