Lace

Flanders

1775 - 1825

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium linen, Flanders lace
  • Dimensions 25 × 2 1/2 in. (63.5 × 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Rosalie Joseph Leventritt in memory of her mother Jennie Marx Joseph, 1955.9.33
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Large, deep creamware charger painted in bright enamel colors in shades of yellow, green, brown, and blue, the front rim edged in yellow and the center with a scene that extends to the rim of Mercury floating from above, his right arm outstretched, towards a seated Paris, who extends his left arm with hand open to receive the Apple of Discord, on the right a seated puma looks on, in a rocky landscape with trees and a river edge in foreground; the reverse decorated with a band of zigzags in browns and blues interspersed with yellow and green circular motifs, with a green band and a blue band within which the artist's monogram, date 1858, and the inscription MERCVRIO presenta il pumo a PARIDE.
Sacrificial Scene, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Tall, delicate, oviform vase of solid light blue jasperware with applied white jasper relief resting on a square plinth decorated with a band of stylized anthemion motifs, the body of the vase rests on a round foot with a row of overlapping, stylized acanthus leaf motifs and slender stem from which emanate long, stylized acanthus leaves, the main body of the vase is decorated with two portrait medallions, on one side that of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, after the portrait by Samuel Cooper (an identical unsigned wax portrait is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) and on the other of William I, of Orange (1533-1584) wearing skull cap and ruff after the portrait by Michiel Mierevelt. Each of the portraits is framed above by rope festoons of leaves and berries that extend around the body of the vase and is supported by flowing ribbons and small escutcheons; the handles are in the form of two serpent heads that hold an egg in their mouths, below each handle is a mask of a winged Medusa against a scaly ground. The domed cover has a band of oak leaves and acorns intertwined with a ribbon around its lower edge, the finial is in the form of a seated, draped, sleeping cherub on a rocky ground with a quiver and two love birds.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware