Leaf Dish

Staffordshire

About 1750-1760

  • Titles Leaf Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium salt-glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions 1 × 4 1/8 × 1 7/8 in. (2.5 × 10.5 × 4.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.165.1998
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Small oval medallion of solid dark blue jasperware with white jasper bas relief of Terpsichore – a classical female figure holding a lyre standing next to a column with a figure on top, set in gold mount with simple looped edge, with eye for a chain.
Small, round medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration with the scene of "Nike and a Warrior," Nike carrying a palm branch to symbolize victory, she stands on one side of a statue of Athena with a helmeted warrior on the other, set into a simple silver mount with an eye for hanging.
Bust in profile left.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Caligula, set in brass with ring to hang as pendant