Chest of Drawers (Commode)

Guillaume Benneman, Paris, France

About 1785-1790

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Small creamware teapot with cabbage spout and double intertwined handle with leafy terminals highlighted in green and puce, both sides of the body hand-painted with on one side the figure of an East Asian woman in blue, yellow and puce-colored western garb holding a yellow and puce parasol in an exotic landscape with green foliage, a lattice fence and an Asian structure in the background, with fluffy puce clouds in the sky, on the other side a landscape with an Asian structure flying a flag and a lattice fence with green exotic foliage, the conforming cover similarly decorated and with flower finial.
Bust in profile left.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Josiah Wedgwood
Large oval plaque of white jasper with peach-green jasper dip and white relief decoration with the portrait bust of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist, biologist and geologist, to left.