Bodkin Case

Bilston

About 1820

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Large, heavy bowl of coarse beige/brown stoneware, covered with a gray-green glaze that is mottled, letting the color of the clay show through, the central well with a scrolled design in the glaze, the rim of the bowl rubbed free of glaze.
Round plaque of solid light blue jasper with border of laurel leaves and berries in white relief.
Rectangular black basalt intaglio with figure of Mnemsyne
Tall, narrow candlestick in the 16th century Renaissance style of colorful Majolica glazed in bright shades of green, blue, yellow, brown and white, of columnar form with round foot decorated with stylized acanthus leaves in low relief, the angular stem pierced with figures and scrolling floral elements below four female busts that support the leafy bobeche, the nozzle in the shape of an urn.