Lace

Brussels, Belgium

18th century

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium linen, Flemish lace
  • Dimensions 130 × 23 1/4 in. (330.2 × 59.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Freed in memory of her mother, Esther Loveman Kempner, 1984.335.21
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Small vase of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of urn shape on a square plinth decorated with white anthemion motifs all around, the round foot engine-turned and with a band of white beading, the lower body with white stiff leaf motifs and the upper body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series, including women and children at play with a dog and birds in a landscape with trees, around the shoulder a band of white jasper overlapping laurel leaves and berries, the two twisted handles terminate in lion masks, the neck is engine-turned and has a band of white beading below the lip, the cover is a wood replacement.
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