Egg Beater

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Small, round patch box of enameled copper, the box pink and the cover with a white ground and the portrait of a woman lounging in a landscape, with metal mounts.
Oval blue jasper Nicolo intaglio with black profile portrait of King George II
Large, heavy ewer commonly known as "Sacred to Bacchus" resting on a square plinth with molded scrolling vines, the foot and lower body fluted and with bands of acanthus leaves around the foot and overlapping leaves around the middle of the body, with a smaller band of beading on the stem, the main body with garlands of leafy grape vines and bunches of grapes, on the should of the ewer sits a faun with his head bowed, he holds the horns of a ram in his hands as reins, his arms encompass the neck of the ewer, with a crossed double handle behind him.
Colorful round dessert plate of "Catherine" shape edged in brown enamel, the rim decorated with a border of green ivy leaves and berries on a vine, the interior well encircled with a band of brown gadrooning and painted with a view of the ruins of the chapel at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, England, within a natural landscape with two male figures in the foreground, below the scene "The Chapel in Fairley Castle, Somersetshire"