Covered Sugar Bowl

William Adams & Co.

About 1790

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Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Obverse: Laureate head in profile right. Reverse: Within laurel wreath, an inscription, commemmorating the victory of General von Diebitsch bei Schumla during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829
A Parian plaque, or tile, with a dark blue-green, glazed ground with white pâte-sur-pâte decoration depicting a nymph wearing a diaphanous robe, holding a protesting cherub in the scale-patterned basin of a columnar fountain with her left hand and wielding a scrubbing brush in her raised right hand, behind her are three additional cherubs suspended from a line on which they have been hung out to dry.
Small rectangular enameled copper patch box with pink box, the lid white with the printed image of two female figures walking in a landscape with the motto, "Constant to thee I'll ever be," with metal mounts and inside the lid a mirror.