Purse

Europe

19th century

  • Titles Purse (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, lace
  • Dimensions Overall: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm) Overall1: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Norma Forbes, 1984.314
  • Work Type purse
  • Classification Costume

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Creamware teapot molded and shaped to resemble a tree stump, with curved branch handle and spout, in high relief on one side a seated couple in a landscape [Hebe and her lover], the man offering a nest full of eggs to the woman in his outstretched left hand, above them an unrolled scroll with the words FAIR HEBE and additional illegible script, on the other side the portrait medallion of a man [William Shenstone] below the name SHENSTONE and two cherubs underneath placing laurel and acanthus leaves on a wreath surrounding the medallion, overall highlighted with green, blue and brown glazes on cream, the conforming flat cover with leaf and branch finial.
Rectangular dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of sacrificial scene with four male figures, set in silver as a brooch, two vertical cracks
Oval white jasper cameo with relief scene of three women
Medallion design ornamented with incised floral designs on the rim and a central medallion with underglaze blue, iron-red and polychrome floral decoration