The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every classJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every class
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Pottery, British -- History
One pair of element groups, 1 pair of large fruit and flower
figures, and one pair figures representing earth and water, in
ditto. [42s.]
A neat chimney-piece embellished with composition ornaments.
Six beautiful coffee or chocolate cups and saucers, enamel’d
with Cupids, fine blue ring and gilt.
A very rich and beautiful desert-service, enamel’d with roses
and fine mazarine blue and gold border, consisting of 24 plates,
2 large oblong compotiers, 1 ditto with a foot, 2 heart-shape,
4 oval, 4 octagon, and 4 shell-shape ditto, and a pair of cream
bowls, covers, stands, and spoons. [£28 7s.]
One beautiful group of 2 Virgins awaking Cupid, and a ditto of
2 bacchants dressing Pan with a garland of flowers, in biscuit.
[£3 18s.]
One superb and elegant vase with therms, beautifully enamel’d
with figures of wisdom and Vigilance on one side, and a
landscape on the other in compartments, and richly ornamented
with fine blue and gold, 2 ewer-shape vases to match, figure of
Virtue on one side and fortitude on the other, with landscape
and fine blue and gold.
One pair of elegant tripods richly ornamented with fine blue and
gold.
One pair of beautiful antique lamps.
One beautiful vase, enamel’d in compartments, with a figure of
rhetoric and a landscape enrich’d with gold stripes.
Two Neptune-head drinking-mugs.
One figure of Andromache weeping over the ashes of Hector, and
one pair of Madona groups, in biscuit.
A large dove-house ornamented with natural flowers and richly
gilt.
One large oval-shape vase and two egg-shape, enamel’d with
Cupids gathering the vintage, richly finished with burnished
gold.
One pair of elegant figures, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1 pair
sportsman and companion, and 1 pair harlequin and columbine, in
biscuit. [37s.]
One group of 4 Cupids, in biscuit. [17s.]
Four pierced flower vases, 2 pair gardeners, and 1 pair small
dancing groups in ditto. [34s.]
A superb and elegant large vase with therms, beautifully
enamel’d with figures of the three Graces on one side and a
landscape on the other, 1 pair of ewer-shape vases to match,
figure of Virtue and History on one side and landscapes on the
other, in compartments, enrich’d with chased and burnished gold.
One pair of Egg-shape vases to match, enamel’d with figures of
Prudence and Rhetoric.
Four small desert flower-vases, in biscuit. [9s.]
A beautiful group of 4 Cupids, 2 pair of small music figures, 1
pair French shepherds, and 4 small vases, in biscuit. [£2 3s.]
One pair large dancing groups, in biscuit. [24s.]
A pair of uncommonly large octagon jars (near 2 feet high)
decorated with natural flowers and finely enamel’d with figures,
landscapes, &c., richly ornamented with chased and burnish’d
gold, the figures represent a votaress of Bacchus and Innocence
washing her hands at an altar.
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