Rug

Near East

  • Titles Rug (Descriptive)
  • Medium textile
  • Dimensions 59 × 43 in. (149.9 × 109.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Miss Nettie Dryer, 1968.22
  • Work Type rug
  • Classification Rugs

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Small footed bowl of white stoneware covered on the outside with a fresh, smooth grass-green glaze and on the inside with a contrasting yellowish-brown glaze that tapers to brown at the well, the outer body decorated around with three bands in a geometric pattern made using the roulette wheel and highlighted in brown glaze.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Jean-Francois Marmontel (1723-1799), French writer and dramatist, born in the Limousin region (noe Haute Vienne). Educated at the Jesuit college at Mauriac. Marmontel became a teacher of philosophy at the Bernardine seminary at Toulouse. He attracted the notice of Voltaire, who advised him to go to Paris where he arrived in 1745. A tragedy produced in 1747 at once gave him celebrity. An introduction to Madame de Pompadour brought him the place of secretary to her brother, the Marquis de Marigny. Marmontel frequented the salon of Madame Geoffrin, and after the death of his friend, Boissy, he was given the Mercure de France. After a great deal of opposition Marmontel was elected to the Academy in 1763, and in 1783 was appointed Secretary and historiographer of France. He retired to Normandy at the outbreak of the revolution, dying there in 1799. This model comes from an unsigned engraving dated 1765
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware