Point de Paris Lace

Late 19th or 20th century

  • Titles Point de Paris Lace (Descriptive)
  • Medium cotton
  • Dimensions 17 × 5/8 in. (43.2 × 1.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. William M. Rogers, 1976.54b
  • Work Type lace
  • Classification Needlework

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Statuette
Oval lilac jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of George III (1738-1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire until his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors, he was born in Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover. Modelled with slight alterations from a wax portrait by Isaac Gosset in about 1775.
Large, deep creamware charger painted in bright enamel colors in shades of yellow, green, brown, and blue, the front rim edged in yellow and the center with a scene that extends to the rim of Mercury floating from above, his right arm outstretched, towards a seated Paris, who extends his left arm with hand open to receive the Apple of Discord, on the right a seated puma looks on, in a rocky landscape with trees and a river edge in foreground; the reverse decorated with a band of zigzags in browns and blues interspersed with yellow and green circular motifs, with a green band and a blue band within which the artist's monogram, date 1858, and the inscription MERCVRIO presenta il pumo a PARIDE.
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.