Pitcher

England

About 1820

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Large, free-form "headless duck" sculpture
Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Large footed jug of earthenware covered with bright majolica glazes, the main body bulbous and covered with a thick, opaque white glaze, with an upward reaching, elongated spout, the sides molded to look like the outstretched wings of a swan, the handle in the form of a long, curving swan neck, the swan head with small eyes and slightly open black beak forms the terminal, the lower body, around the foot and lip of the jug with molded decoration in the form of water grasses in various shades of green and yellow.
Round dark blue jasper portrait medallion with white relief portrait of William Pitt (1759-1806), younger son of Earl of Chatham, English statesman and successful orator, he entered Parliament in 1781 and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1782, aged 23, and First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer before he reached his 25th Birthday. In 1800 he was responsible for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.