Egg Separator

Caughley Porcelain Manufactory

About 1780-1785

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Small footed, irregularly round bowl of reddish earthenware covered with a greenish ash glaze, which is runny, drippy and scorched in spots, it runs irregularly down the sides of the bowl leaving part of the foot unglazed.
Oval medallion of white jasper with green dip and white bas relief of the "Bourbonnais Shepherd" – a young man seated under a tree with a small sheep in his arms and a small dog looking on – mounted in a steel bracelet, the medallion held to the face with prongs, the surrounding border engraved with crosshatching and on either side a simple flower with leafy motifs, the band is attached to the face with hinges and is engraved with a stippled border and on either side a triangle with similar leafy motifs, with adjustable hook and chain clasp.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration with most of a tree on the left side, a boy seated on a stump with a pan flute, a young satyr removing the staff from the hand of young Bacchus, who sleeps beneath a tree wearing a grapevine crown, and a satyr seated on a rock eating grapes, with another partial tree on the right side, all on a thin ground that extends the length of the panel.
Bust in profile right in uniform with the sash and Order of the Black Eagle.