Lace

First half 19th century

  • Titles Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, lace
  • Dimensions 23 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (59.7 × 9.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Lee Brakefield, 1984.127.49
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Vase with a bucket form and a tapered base. The exterior is decorated with dimensional bands throughout the form. The rim of the vase has a slightly pronounced lip. The interior is glazed an iron/dark red, which is interrupted at the base where the form begins to taper in.
Oval white jasper cameo with unidentified scene
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief scene of seated woman
Obverse: Five protesting princes. Reverse: Five protesting princes in the middle a "Bürgermeister" as representative of the fourteen, also protesting, cities, holding hands over an open Bible.