Lace

About 1900

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton point de gaze lace
  • Dimensions 13 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (34.3 × 3.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.39
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Hollow Parian figure of a seated woman wearing an off-the-shoulder, flowing gown, her left leg propped on a rock, her left arm bent and resting on her knee, her hand at her chin, her right arm dropped and holding a small harp at her side, on an irregular rocky base.
Ewer of solid white jasper with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on square plinth decorated with white anthemion motifs, the round foot likewise with anthemion motifs, the stem with a band of beading and the lower body with lotus motifs, the main body with the applied figures of the nine Muses below a band of stylized anthemion motifs, above that a frieze of five small relief scenes in oval reserves, with beading around the neck, ruffled spout and snake handle.
Bust
Large well modelled rectangular basalt plaque depicing the 'Fall of Phaeton' by George Stubbs. R.A. featuring Phaeton the son of the sun god in his chariot pulled by four horses with Phaeton straining at the reigns to get them under control.