Rug

England

About 1780-1790

  • Titles Rug (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium wool, needlepoint
  • Dimensions 85 x 66 in. (215.9 x 167.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Beeson Wedgwood Fund, 1992.33
  • Work Type rug
  • Classification Rugs
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Radiant bust almost front, slightly left, the head in profile left.
Large urn of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white relief decoration, resting on solid white plinth decorated with a border of delicate lotus motifs, on round foot with a pattern of gadrooning around the edge, the urn's lower body with a pattern of foliate motifs and above a white band figures from "Blind Man's Bluff", with two fluted and extended handles and a band of palmettes on the shoulder, the conforming cover is a facsimile.
Jug of white, soft-paste porcelain with cabbage leaf molded relief decoration on the main body, with long cylindrical neck molded in relief in a kind of fluted pattern with a border at the lip of repeating leaf and dot motifs (somewhat obscured by the lead glaze), with loop and scroll handle and small beak spout with molded mask; the jug with printed patterns on three sides, on either side of the main body the "Iron Bridge" pattern and below the spout the "Broseley Pipe Smoker" pattern above which a small sprig of grape vine with leaves and a bunch of grapes, on the neck above each side with the "Iron Bridge" pattern a demilune with blue sky and fluffy white clouds; the interior lip also printed in blue with a narrow band of circles and dots, two white stripes, and a wider band of Asian-like geometric forms and flowers, a variation of the so-called Fitzhugh pattern.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Napoleon (1769-1821) facing left wearing a laurel wreath. Napoleon was the French Emperor reigning between (1804-1814) before taking control of Italy between 1805 and 1814.He was banished to Saint Helena where he died of cancer of the stomach with his body being returned tio Paris in 1840, 19 years after his death to be placed in the crypt of the Invalides.