Scent Bottle and Stopper

England

About 1750

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Orestes and Pylades, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a glass paste by Nathaniel Marchant, cast iron
Bust in profile left.
One of a pair of silver, boat-shaped, covered sauceboats, each raised on stepped oval foot with beaded edge, the upper rim of the main body likewise beaded, with two large, loop handles with reeded accents, the fitted, domed cover notched to accommodate a ladle, with beaded urn finial, both the cover and the body on one side engraved with a stag crest.
Large oval platter of caneware in the concave shape decorated in the "Nerots" pattern, the border with a scalloped edge in blue underglaze enamel with a modified fish scale pattern likewise in blue at the indentations, the center with an oval wreath of stylized green flowers and blue berries with six bright red birds resting on it, with six small line-drawn butterflies scattered about.