Purse

1890 - 1910

  • Titles Purse (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, metal
  • Dimensions Overall: 6 1/2 x 5 in. (16.5 x 12.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1104
  • Work Type purse
  • Classification Costume

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Bust of a male "Mongolian" in white porcelain, his head tilted slightly left, his lips parted, wearing an elongated moustache and short goatee, an irregularly ruffled conical hat decorated at the edge with small beads, and a ruffled collar over a slightly open coat molded with elaborate frogging, with a diamond-buckled belt above an integral waisted octagonal base that is fluted and beaded above the foot rim; the back hollow.
Miniature vase of matte black basalt in the shape of the the two-handled amphora-shaped Portland Vase, but without the relief decoration and with a variation in the handle form.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Asclepiades facing right
Creamware, Queen's-shape dinner plate enameled in rose-purple with a border of husk festoons and botanical flowers in the well, the "Husk" pattern as supplied to the Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1770.