Covered Sauce Tureen with Stand

Spode (Josiah Spode)

1805-1815

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Obverse: Cherub with basket in landscape and cornucopia at feet. Reverse with inscription.
Ladies' parasol of black silk taffeta and lined with black silk, the canopy overlaid with black tulle, cut to reveal a subtle floral design with applied black cording and gold thread applied in a pattern of stylized leafy floral motifs, with ruffled edge with black satin banding and tuft of black silk at the top, the tapered handle/stick of ivory carved in relief with a floral garland that winds around the stick, the spike in the form of the bust of a bacchanalian figure likewise in carved ivory, with two tassels attached to the stick with black twine, the frame of black and gold tone metal.
Small bulbous vase in Keith Murray shape number 3765 of creamware covered with a matt yellow, or straw, glaze, with foot and a series of molded rings around the body, the neck slightly extended.
Bust in profile left in the uniform of the American Continental Army.