Chest

England

1640-1660

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Oval medallion with portrait of an unidentified classical male facing left.
Salad spoon with handle of dark blue jasper with white relief decoration in a pattern of acanthus leaves and small floral motifs, with a small floral motif at the tip, the stem and bowl of silver plate.
Tall, colorful majolica ewer on square base of mottled green color, decorated with foliage, the foot in shades of green with foliage, fluting and beading, the yellow body has a green band of acanthus leaves in the middle and a pattern of green acanthus leaves projecting from the foot towards the middle. Atop the body, behind the spout sits Triton, half man, half fish, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, who rides a sea monster, whose head is mounted on the front of the ewer and from which projects sea weed, the handle of the ewer is brown and also made to look like organic material, the inside of the spout is green
The seated figure of a woman in unglazed hard-paste biscuit porcelain dressed in classical garb reading a book atop a footed lamp in the form of a canoe-shaped antique oil lamp, this painted with overglaze enamels in a greenish tone that simulates patinated copper (vert bronze), with decorative gilding