Vase

Belleek Factory

1926 - 1947

  • Titles Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Belleek Factory, Ireland
  • Medium porcelain
  • Dimensions Overall: 6 5/8 x 2 3/4 in. (16.8 x 7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. Charlotte A. Schneyer in memory of her husband, Dr. Leon H. Schneyer, 1984.278
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with glazed interior
Small cast-iron pocket watch holder on octagonal base with an oval surface with beaded edge and designed to look like the ripples on water, the stem comprised of two intertwined, scaly, dolphin-like sea creatures whose tails extend up to support the holder for the pocket watch, this in the form of a shell with wavy edges and a central round opening with beaded border, the back of the holder with a row of leaves that form a support for the watch.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of John Dryden (1631-1700) facing right. John Dryden was born in Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire the eldest of fourteen children. In 1650 Dryden went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. He graduated in 1654 with his BA, graduating top of the list for Trinity that year. Dryden returned to London during the Protectorate, where he obtained work with Cromwell's secretary of state, John Thurloe. This later helped him publish his first poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display.
Bust in profile left.