Veil

Late 19th/early 20th century

  • Titles Veil (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Dimensions 50 × 43 in. (127 × 109.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1017
  • Work Type veil
  • Classification Costume

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Small hollow pedestal of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and with white jasper relief decoration, bell-shaped with a guilloche band at the lower edge and with four heavy legs of white jasper with ram's masks at the top and extending downward with leaf and berry decoration and ending in hoofed feet, on each of the four sides a small winged cupid with various implements as allegories of the four seasons, with a hole on the top.
Statuette on tall base.
Large bulbous potpourri vase of black basalt decorated overall with bright colored enamels in the Chinese style with chrysanthemums and other flowers, exotic foliage and a rocky ground, birds and a butterfly, with two small loop handles, the pierced cover with an acorn finial, edged in red.
Creamware teapot of globular shape with molded cabbage leaf spout and leaf molded handle, hand-painted on one side in an elaborate scrolling cartouche the portrait of a classical woman in profile left, on the reverse a classical vase and ribbons that terminate on the cover on which the same design is repeated, all in puce enamel.