Lace

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium embroidery on muslin
  • Dimensions 7 x 2 1/2 in. (17.8 x 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Coleman Cooper in memory of his mother, Olive Bryan Cooper, 1984.195.25
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Underglaze blue decoration
Large, heavy oval portrait medallion of light blue jasper with blue jasper dip and white relief, with the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, in classical drapery facing almost front, behind him in white relief Newton's comet of 1680, the first comet discovered by telescope.
Blue jasper dish with white relief commemorating Christian IX, King of Denmark (1818-1898) made to commemorate his 80th Birthday.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in black jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage. The white jasper used for the relief decoration has been touched with shading to give the impression of translucency, the vase is badly blistered.