Coin Bank

Staffordshire

About 1755 - 1760

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Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a woman selling flowers, emblematic of spring, standing in full figure on a rococo base highlighted in gold and green, to her left a flowering branch that offers the figure support, around her waist a white apron filled with bunches of flowers, her left arm encircles the flowering branch, wearing a flowered and striped skirt with purple bustle and puce bodice tied together with gold string over a white blouse, her hat is red and blue.
Mug, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with red glazed interior
Vase, Designed by John Dermer, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware