FRAME WITH WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH OF MELISSA MERLE MACNEILLE
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: First Floor Library
About this object
Frame is rectangular with top edge slightly curved. It is carved from pale green jade. At top center is a single oval carved medallion in carnelian. The carved designs include sprays of leaves and flowers. Frame contains a black and white photograph mounted on paper of Melissa Merle MacNeille in 1960 wearing her wedding dress for her marriage to Lt. Cmdr. Rodion Cantacuzène, USN.
- Object name:
- FRAME WITH WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH OF MELISSA MERLE MACNEILLE
- Made from:
- Jade -- brass -- carnelian
- Made in:
- China
- Date made:
- 20th c.
- Size:
- 40.3 x 32.1 cm (15 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 62.122
- Class:
- HARDSTONE
- Signature marks:
- mark CHINA On left side of top of back of frame. Scratched in stone. mark CHINA on lower lefthand side of back of frame scratched in stone mark F on lower lefthand side of back of frame handwritten in graphite inscription Bradford Bachrach lower righthand corner of front of photograph inscribed in gold letters.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973