Change Purse

Wedgwood

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On a thick, rectangular plinth decorated on each side with the Greek key pattern, gilt, the top of the plinth is bronzed, rest two Egyptian sphinxes whose outstretched wings support an oval bowl which has been molded with a raised, pattern of loose ribbons on the sides and underneath with the head of Bacchus surrounded by grapes and leaves, the headdress of each sphinx is gilded and around the edge of the bowl is a band of gilding that extends to the two swan's head handles as well as the gadrooning on the bowl's shoulder, the conforming cover rests on the gilded, beaded edge of the bowl and has a gilded lotus finial.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Winston Churchill smoking a cigar (1874-1965) facing left. Winston Churchill was a British politician who was Prime Minister between 1940 and 1945 and again between 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to Victory against Nazi Germany. He is well known for his famous speech "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
Tall, hard-paste porcelain vase of campana shape, the upper body with white biscuit bas-relief figures against a glazed green ground, the figures include King Friedrich Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827) dressed as a Roman emperor; he is flanked by the figures of Justice on his right, and Minerva on his left; on the opposite side of the vase is the figure of a Roman vestal, representing the state of Saxony, pouring oil on sacrificial flames on an altar inscribed with the dates of the king's reign; at her feet lies an overflowing cornucopia as well as war trophies and emblems of the seven liberal arts; the bulbous lower body heavily gilt with two handles and a series of applied acanthus leaves of white biscuit porcelain, the foot with central decorative element of green glazed porcelain with small, applied, white biscuit leaves, the lower splayed foot a series of channels
Creamware cup and saucer molded with a shell design around the inner rim of the saucer and the upper body of the cup, the cup footed and with a double, intertwined handle with leafy terminals, both cup and saucer transfer-printed in brown-black with the same scene of two exotic, or Liverpool, birds in a landscape with two additional birds in flight.