Lace

First half 19th century

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, lace
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.49
  • Object Name lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Oval lilac jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of George III 1738 1820 was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801 after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death He was concurrently Duke and prince elector of Brunswick Lüneburg Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire until his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814 He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover but unlike his two predecessors he was born in Britain spoke English as his first language and never visited Hanover Modelled with slight alterations from a wax portrait by Isaac Gosset in about 1775
Bust in profile right
One of a set of four large figures of soft paste porcelain representing the Four Quarters of the Globe each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents Asia the figure of a female child wrapped in loose fitting silks trimmed with gold and wearing a jeweled bodice her headdress is decorated with exotic fruits and flowers in her right hand she holds a gilt censor or incense burner her left hand clutches a small bouquet of precious spices at her feet lies a recumbent camel with upturned head on a green grassy ground decorated with flowers
Jug of white soft paste porcelain with cabbage leaf molded relief decoration on the main body with long cylindrical neck molded in relief in a kind of fluted pattern with a border at the lip of repeating leaf and dot motifs somewhat obscured by the lead glaze with loop and scroll handle and small beak spout with molded mask the jug with printed patterns on three sides on either side of the main body the Iron Bridge pattern and below the spout the Broseley Pipe Smoker pattern above which a small sprig of grape vine with leaves and a bunch of grapes on the neck above each side with the Iron Bridge pattern a demilune with blue sky and fluffy white clouds the interior lip also printed in blue with a narrow band of circles and dots two white stripes and a wider band of Asian like geometric forms and flowers a variation of the so called Fitzhugh pattern