Basket Figure, or Bun Seller

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

About 1765

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Large well modelled rectangular basalt plaque depicing the 'Fall of Phaeton' by George Stubbs. R.A. featuring Phaeton the son of the sun god in his chariot pulled by four horses with Phaeton straining at the reigns to get them under control.
Covered sugar bowl of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, the conforming cover similarly decorated with button finial.
Laureate bust in profile left.
Small custard cup of solid white jasper with light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper lattice work relief decoration overall, with double twisted handle, the conforming cover with decorative white jasper lattice work on white jasper ground, with flat finial.