Skirt

19th century

  • Titles Skirt (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Arthur I. Chenoweth, 1979.29b
  • Work Type skirt
  • Classification Costume

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Tea bowl and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the tea bowl with an engine-turned lower body, the main body decorated with cupids at play in a landscape with a flower basket, birds and insects, an urn and a dog, with a lapidary-polished interior, the saucer (possibly a marriage) engine turned on the interior resulting in light green and white stripes, the rim decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves.
Solid light blue jasper inkstand with white jasper relief decoration, oval in shape with a band of acanthus leaves running around the body and a scalloped gallery around the top, the top with two containers, one with a facsimile cover, and a central candleholder in the form of a classical style "ruined" column.
Black basalt vase of ovoid shape, Keith Murray shape 3870, with engine-turned ribbing on the body.
Bust of Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810) in classical drapery with star-encrusted diadem with veil, on small round sockel resting on a tall square plinth.