Lantern

Germany

1825-40

  • Titles Lantern (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 12 3/16 × 5 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (31 × 13 × 13 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Garbáty, 1962.133
  • Work Type lantern
  • Classification Containers

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Shallow, wide bowl of black stoneware covered inside and out with a rough volcanic glaze that is pink and white in the well against the dark ground.
Small patch box, rectangular in shape and with white ground, painted on all four sides with colorful scenes of figures in interiors, the lid painted with an amorous couple before a window, the underside with a small square reserve in which is painted a female figure seated in front of a window.
Pair of white, footed, slightly flared bowls of hard-paste porcelain, the body molded into a fluted, or "bamboo," pattern that is in two sections, a smaller lower section and larger upper section.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of John Dryden (1631-1700) facing right. John Dryden was born in Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire the eldest of fourteen children. In 1650 Dryden went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. He graduated in 1654 with his BA, graduating top of the list for Trinity that year. Dryden returned to London during the Protectorate, where he obtained work with Cromwell's secretary of state, John Thurloe. This later helped him publish his first poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display.