Lace

20th century

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton; silk
  • Dimensions 12 × 11 3/4 in. (30.5 × 29.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Coleman Cooper in memory of his mother, Olive Bryan Cooper, 1984.117
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Cup-shaped bowl. The bowl's exterior is partially glazed and decorated with irregular black bands on top of a brown coat that varies in pigmentation intensity. The lower half of the bowl is glazed more consistently and the lower black bands have a drip-like quality to them and are also more uniform in size and spacing on the form. The upper half of the bowl contains unglazed black bands that are indented in most parts, creating a rough texture. The lip of the bowl is white and unglazed and the bowl's base is glazed and white. The bowl's interior is glazed irregularly and is primarily mustard, with areas of unglazed bone china showing through.
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed sideways in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, above and below the printed scene and on the interior and exterior sides a border of small blue square elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector Around the Walls of Troy, with Hector's wife looking on from a wall on the left, Achilles in a chariot with two horses drags the body of Hector, a winged figure with a laurel-leaf wreath is on the right, all on a thin ground.
In the shape of a tub, the cover with relief decoration and a recumbent lion as knob.