Covered Milk Jug

Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1770

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Molded pearlware plate in the form of a scallop shell, painted in shades of brown, yellow, green, purple, and flesh tones with the figure of a winged putti reclining in a landscape with billowing yellow drapery behind him and a fruiting grapevine on the ground in front of him, edged in mustard-yellow.
On a rectangular base the figure of a miner leaning slightly forward from the weight of a basket on his back designed to hold toothpicks (now missing), his left hand on his hip.
Small salt cellar of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, round with shallow, lapidary-polished well, the exterior decorated with a series of cupid figures at play in a landscape with dogs, insects, trees, butterflies and a fruit basket, with bands of guilloche around the top and bottom and a laminated band of white along the top edge.
Cupid in the Underworld, as the Tamer of Cerberus with Pluto's Pitchfork, Modeled after a relief (1828) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron