Lace

19th or 20th century

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, valenciennes lace
  • Dimensions 61 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (156.8 × 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.7
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Small tin-glazed earthenware tile with an opaque, creamy white ground, transfer-printed in black with the image of "The Tithe Pig" featuring a peasant couple with a baby and a pig and a clergyman in a long cloak and hat, the wife offers her baby to the clergyman as a tithe instead of the pig, which is offered by the husband, within a scrolled border.
Cupid and Psyche, Modeled after a cut stone by Charles Brown, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Frame with decorative, pierced, and scrolling border, in the center against a blue fabric ground the silhouette figure of Gutenberg.
Bust front.