Lace Edging

  • Titles Lace Edging (Descriptive)
  • Medium valenciennes lace
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Rosalie Joseph Leventritt in memory of her mother Jennie Marx Joseph, 1955.9.18
  • Work Type edging
  • Classification Needlework

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Square lab trial for a black jasper plaque with white relief of Thalia. Thalia is one of the nine Muses. She is the muse of comedy and holds a mask and a shepherd's crook modelled by John Flaxman in about 1776
Black basalt jug decorated with encaustic painting derived from the Greek "oenochoe" form with a band of red around the foot and detailing the handle, the body decorated with on one side the image of a classical figure holding a mirror aloft and on the other a classical figure in movement holding a wreath, both are making offerings and are derived from a scene of the god Castor in a temple, above the figures at the shoulder is a band of anthemion and tear drop motifs below a band of floral elements, midway on the neck is a band of beading and the lip of the jug is decorated with an egg and dart pattern, the curved, molded handle terminates in a molded mask, perhaps Castor's brother Pollux, wearing a swan headdress above a foliate sprig.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid white jasper with dark blue dip and flat white relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a draped nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a draped nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask.
Obverse: Bust front, holding the Bible. Reverse: Luther with his Ninety-Five Theses at the door of the All Saints Church in Wittenberg.