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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Drawer pull with moulded floral decoration
Miniature cup and saucer of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on both cup and saucer tiny relief scenes including on the cup Aurora, classical figures, and classical figures at an altar, on the saucer Romulus/Remus with a wolf, Venus and Cupid, Cupids riding a sea monster, Cupids with an urn, and Cupid riding a sea monster.
Vase of bone china in the shape of the First Day's Vase with bulbous body and small foot resting on a small square plinth, with two upright, elongated handles, the flat cover with baluster finial, the vase in the "Aesthetic style" and elaborately decorated on a white ground with two large inward curling scrolls on all four sides in shades of matte olive green, turquoise, and gold, in between are leafy swags extending from orange and gold rectangular reserves above a stylized acanthus leaf element, the lower body in matte olive green with cross hatching and parallel lines in gold, the shoulder of the vase with gold anthemion motifs against a matte olive green ground, the handles gold and the foot decorated with a band of leafy elements in orange and turquoise, a similar band runs around the side of the cover, the top of the cover and the finial in matte olive green highlighted in gold, the square base matte green on the sides and likewise highlighted in gold.