Bust of John Locke

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One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Asia: the figure of a female child wrapped in loose-fitting silks trimmed with gold and wearing a jeweled bodice, her headdress is decorated with exotic fruits and flowers, in her right hand she holds a gilt censor or incense burner, her left hand clutches a small bouquet of precious spices, at her feet lies a recumbent camel with upturned head on a green grassy ground decorated with flowers.
Cup of solid lilac jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the lower body engine-turned, the upper body with a series of cupids at play, with loop handle, the associated saucer likewise of solid lilac jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of overlapping acanthus leaves around the well, the underside engine turned.
Plain drawer pull
Cup or Mug, Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County, glazed stoneware