Cream Boat

Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1755

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Cream jug of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, with loop handle that is angled at the top, and elongated spout.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Molded creamware bowl on stand, the footed bowl oval in shape and molded with a shell pattern on the body and foot, with an undulating rim below which is pierced with a series of elongated arches highlighted in green enamel, below this a band of laurel leaves bound with pink ribbons and the double-headed eagle crest of the Bouverie family, the edges trimmed in brown, the conforming stand similarly decorated and with two shell handles highlighted in brown.
The stem in the form of Demeter holding a cornucopia.