Meat Platter

Paris, France

1757

  • Titles Meat Platter (Descriptive)
  • Medium silver
  • Dimensions 1 × 17 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (2.5 × 45.1 × 32.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection, 1991.441
  • Work Type platter
  • Classification Containers

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Cup and saucer of enameled buff-colored caneware, the cup footed with a band of blue around the foot and a bamboo-molded handle, the exterior fluted and decorated with blue and white enamel to resemble a band of bamboo poles with blue bands and bamboo leaves, the cup edged in blue, the conforming saucer likewise edged in blue and with the same blue and white bamboo pattern around the interior rim.
Oval tri-color jasper (green, black, and white) with white relief scene with man and woman decorated by Bert Bentley
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.
Bust in profile left.