Pair of Cuffs

  • Titles Pair of Cuffs (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton, lace
  • Dimensions (each) 9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Coleman Cooper in memory of his mother, Olive Bryan Cooper, 1984.195.24a-b
  • Work Type cuffs
  • Classification Costume

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Tall, heavy vase of black basalt with long narrow cylindrical foot with impressed geometric motifs around the middle created by the roulette wheel, the upper body bowl shaped with a wide indented band around the middle and narrower opening at top, the interior covered with a red-maroon colored glaze.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief portrait of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) English Statesman, Founder of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Appointed Home Secretary in 1822, Leader of the House of Commons in 1828 and in 1834 became Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Oval bronze plaque depicting the destruction of Niobe's children