Chatelaine
ca. 1780-1800 (made)
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Chatelaine of blue jasperware and cut-steel beads with a plaque and pendants. The jasper beads have white relief foliations. The pendants, which comprise of a small breloque in the form of an onyx cup, and another in the form of a stylised female head in silver, and the letter G in silver on foil covered with a heart-shaped amethyst glass crowned and set in cut-steel, hang from an octagonal blue jasper plaque with a relief in white cameo of a seated woman mourning beside a torso and helm.
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Materials and techniques | Blue jasperware, silver, cut-steel beads and glass, and white relief decoration |
Brief description | Chatelaine of blue jasperware and cut-steel beads with a plaque and pendants, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd., Etruria, ca. 1780-1800. |
Physical description | Chatelaine of blue jasperware and cut-steel beads with a plaque and pendants. The jasper beads have white relief foliations. The pendants, which comprise of a small breloque in the form of an onyx cup, and another in the form of a stylised female head in silver, and the letter G in silver on foil covered with a heart-shaped amethyst glass crowned and set in cut-steel, hang from an octagonal blue jasper plaque with a relief in white cameo of a seated woman mourning beside a torso and helm. |
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Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
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Other number | Sch. II 509 - Schreiber number |
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Accession number | 414:1296-1885 |
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Record created | May 13, 2009 |
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