Round box with painted scene of two warriors and a monk

Box

  • Titles Box (Descriptive)
  • Medium painted wood
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Catherine Collins, 1964.103.10
  • Object Name box
  • Classification Containers

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Candlestick Bow porcelain factory ceramic
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of George III 1738 1820 facing left George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland Baptized George Frederick William Son of Frederick Prince of Wales who died in 1751 and Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha He was unable to read English until the age of eleven but when his accession took place in 1760 he at once made a favourable impression as an English born prince In July 1761 his forthcoming marriage to Princess Charlotte of Mecklenberg Strelitz was announced and their coronation took plate later that year His political influence did much to create the circumstances which culminated in the American War of Independence In 1788 the first signs of a mental aberration from which he was later to suffer became apparent In 1809 his health broke down irretrievably so his eldest son later George IV became Prince Regent in 1810 George III did not recover his faculties and died in 1820 after surviving several assassination attempts
Tall footed vase with cover in a deep blue and white jasper dip the edge of the foot is decorated in white relief with a band of overlapping leaves and berries delicately shaded to give the impression of translucency the stem features a band of beading where it meets the body the lower body is decorated in a stiff leaf lotus pattern the main body is decorated in the round with a group of cherubs or geniuses each carrying symbolic objects or playing musical instruments above the figures is a border of nine bearded men interspersed with laurel branches and above this a border of anthemion motifs the upper edge of the vase is decorated with an egg and dart pattern below a narrow band of ropework the neck features a band of of grape vines and leaves with bunches of grapes the conforming domed cover has a similar stiff leaf lotus pattern and pine cone finial
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