Creamware flatback figure of Aunt Chloe from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" standing in full figure on a round base, her arms, face and shoes are glazed black, otherwise her two-piece dress and headscarf as well as the basket she holds in her left hand are white and picked out in bronze lustre, with the name AUNT CHLOE written in bronze script on the front of the base.

Aunt Chloe

Staffordshire

About 1860-1865

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Chatelaine comprised of an oval, dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief set in a cut-steel mount with hook on the back, the medallion with the relief scene of "Hercules and Omphale," from this hang three simple cable chains interspersed with cut-steel beads, each attaches to a second oval, dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief in like cut-steel mount, the medallion with the relief scene of "Ulysses staying the chariot of Victory," from this hang five individual cable chains interspersed with cut-steel beads, the outer two end in tassels and the three in the middle in hooks.
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