Fuddling Cup

Lambeth

About 1660

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Small asparagus shell, or server, of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in a variation of the Caughley "Temple" pattern, the border above comprised of a series of blue squares with round reserves and blue dots.
Tall black basalt vase of conical shape with round foot - Keith Murray shape number 3882 - the upper body incised with a series of engine-turned bands extending around the body.
Plaque of white Jasper, with blue and lilac dip and applied white relief decoration. The cameo scene depicts 'Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn'. A female figure in flowing classical robes drives a chariot, pulled by two rearing horses, to the right across the sky. She wears a diadem of a rayed sun. One winged putti leads the way with a flaming torch and another flies behind the chariot. They are all surrounded by wispy clouds. Around the edge of the scene is a raised border of olive green, with applied white relief decoration of intertwined rope and small impressed bosses at regular intervals. The plaque, for box decoration, is rectangular with cut off corners and a bevelled and polished edge.
Portrait bust of Friedrich von Schiller in profile right in "artist's" garb - an open, ruffled collar and cloak with wide lapels - his hair drawn back in a "queue" or ponytail, in an attached, molded cast-iron frame.