Cat

Staffordshire

About 1760

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Creamware fruit basket and stand, both with a basket weave design in the well, the basket with open woven sides and a double woven band entwining the edge, the stand with pierced rim, and both basket and stand trimmed in cobalt blue.
Seated figure on lid
Chatelaine comprised of three blue and white jasper medallions and six beads mounted as pendants, watch keys, and seals, and a solid blue jasper seal with polished surface mounted in steel and gold with a hook on the back, the entire piece with five hanging elements suspended from a central element comprised of a jasper medallion with a scene of two figures riding a sea serpent set in an engraved gold mount, the first hanging element with two beads on a steel and gold chain, the lower bead with a band of cut steel diamonds functions as a watch key; the second element is a steel and gold chain with a hook from which hangs a jasper and gold seal (the plate is not engraved); the third element, the longest central element, includes a jasper bead on a steel chain above a jasper medallion of a seated figure with scythe, below this the sold blue jasper seal decorated with classical figures around, the plate likewise with two classical figures; the fourth hanging element comprised of a steel and gold chain from which hangs a two-sided blue and white jasper medallion set in a steel mount that functions as a watch key, the medallion with scenes of Psyche bound by Cupid, and two Cupids; the fifth and last hanging element consists of a similar chain with a jasper bead and a gold mounted jasper seal.
Buff-colored, sculptural teapot of glazed porcelain with a spout that looks like a thumb and a cover that features an elephant head atop a seated human body, the teapot body with on one side an elephant in relief within a reserve highlighted in gold, the body also decorated with a transfer-printed frieze under the spout and skeleton figures and other motifs around it, with a banner under the spout that reads TUSKER.