FRAME WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF ELEANOR POST CLOSE
Creator(s): Unknown (Photographer) , Frank O. Salisbury (After) , Unknown (Jeweler)
On view in: First Floor Library
About this object
The frame is carved from pale jade. The carved designs include a vase at the top and sprays of leaves along the side and bottom. The jade is held in a frame of silvered wood. The frame contains a sepia-tone photograph mounted on cardboard of a three-quarter portrait of Eleanor Post Close, ca. 1940. She wears a strapless, light-colored evening gown and holds a dark velvet cape with a light-colored lining around her shoulders.
The frame is carved from pale jade. The frame is rectangular and the top edge is slightly curved. The carved designs include a vase at the top and sprays of leaves along the side and bottom. The jade is held in a frame of silvered wood. The frame contains a sepia-tone photograph mounted on cardboard of a three-quarter portrait of Eleanor Close, ca. 1940, seated and wearing a strapless, light-colored evening gown. She holds a dark velvet cape with a light-colored lining around her shoulders. The original portrait painted in 1939 is by Salisbury (private collection).
- Object name:
- FRAME WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF ELEANOR POST CLOSE
- Made from:
- Jade -- metal -- wood -- photograph
- Made in:
- China
- Date made:
- mid 20th Century
- Size:
- 41.3 × 31.9 cm (16 1/4 × 12 9/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 62.119
- Class:
- HARDSTONE
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION: 2 [Upper left corner of the back of the frame, handwritten in pencil]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973