Lemon

Staffordshire

About 1780-1790

  • Titles Lemon (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 2 1/4 x 4 x 2 in. (5.7 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.243.1998
  • Work Type lemon
  • Classification Sculpture

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Round blue jasper plaque with white relief of Apollo holding Lyre and oak leaf and acorn border, in pencil on back "BRITISH FILM ACADEMY "OSCAR"/WHEN PRESENTED IS INSCRIBED IN GOLD/"BRITISH FILM ACADEMY AWARD" + YEAR". These plaques were presented between 1953 and 1968
Small plain, round box of ivory with a portrait miniature of Madame Récamier (Juliette Récamier) after the painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Louvre, in gold mount.
Vase of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the round foot with molded, bound reeds, the lower body with a ribbon and ivy scroll, with a band of acanthus leaves and one of laurel leaves at the shoulder, the narrower, elongated neck with acanthus leaves, a band of arabesque of scrolls and flowers, the upper neck with a pattern of acanthus leaves alternating with stiff leaf motifs, the flared edge with a band of acanthus leaves.
Round portrait medallion of gray-blue jasper laminated between two dark blue jasper dip surfaces, with a gray-blue portrait bust of a man to left.