Coffeepot

Leeds Pottery

About 1785

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Cast from mold with profile portrait of George Washington
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.
Octagonal blue jasper cameo with white relief scene of Hercules and the boar
Oval green jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Priestly