Long evening dress

  • Titles Long evening dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium taffeta
  • Credit Line Bequest of Sybil Noble Murray, 2000.213
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Helmet Pitcher, China, porcelain with underglaze blue decoration, Export ware
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of four Dancing Hours figures on the left side, all on a thin ground, on the right a laurel leaf and berry wreath with fruits suspended on a ribbon in center.
The rectangular frame with pierced foliate motifs and scrolling foliage at the finial. The lithophane with a Rhenish church.
Intricate stand of finely chased silver designed to support a matching basket, resting on four heavy, scrolled feet with shell motifs, the pierced stand curves inward and upward in a dynamic pattern of scrolling foliage and flowers, the lower edge irregular and centered on each of the four sides with a cast and applied mask, the upper edge likewise irregular and ornamented with foliage, with four undecorated edges at which rest the feet of the basket.