Egg Cup

Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1765

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Bust in profile left.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a so-called "Mansion House Dwarf" or "Dwarf Crier" standing in full figure on a round, grassy base and wearing black trousers and shoes, pink vest with floral motifs, a brown waist band, blue sleeves and stockings, and a large Dutch cap with upturned brim, ribbons and gold highlights, the underside in purple lustre and with an advertising newsprint on the up turned brim of the hat advertising farm implements.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of an unidentified man probably a cardinal.
Octagonal four-color jasper (dark blue, sage green, black, and white) cameo with white relief scene with six putti