Lace

Italy

17th century

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium linen
  • Dimensions 5 1/4 x 107 in. (13.3 x 271.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Coleman Cooper in memory of his mother, Olive Bryan Cooper, 1984.195.6a
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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This teardrop-shaped custard cup or dessert pot is made from a fine sheet of moulded yellow jasper which has been decorated with a crenellated edge and the ornamentation of a fine white jasper lattice or trellis design. It was made between 1790 and 1800.
Small bowl of beige stoneware, funnel-shaped and with ribbing, or fluting, on the exterior, covered with a light gray-blue glaze that allows the color of the clay to show through on the edges of the ribbed decoration, the interior glaze ranging from light blue to beige to brown in an irregular and mottled fashion.
Cover to a dish or bowl of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the cover domed and missing its finial, around the sides are six small relief scenes between decorative elements of leaves and anthemion motifs, the scenes include "The Muses Watering Pegasus," "Bellerophon Watering Pegasus," "Priam begging Achilles for the Body of Hector," "Sacrifice to Aesculapius," a group with a cage, and "Aurora."
Creamware apothecary jar of baluster shape, the main body and neck silkscreened with a pattern of triangles, or diamonds, against a striated, striped ground, colored in shades of blue, yellow and black, the domed cover with ball finial.