Harlequin with Bagpipes

Bow porcelain factory

1760-1770

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Tall, bullet shaped vase, Keith Murray shape 4325, that rests on a wide foot, finished in a blue matte with platinum lustre trim on the rim of the mouth and on the base.
Simple silver sugar tongs decorated with bright cut engraving in a pattern of narrow, curving, intersecting bands comprised of scallops and dots, at the curved end in an oval reserve engraved the initials HMB, the pointed bowls with minimal prick-dot engraving.
Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Shallow bowl with light blue mat exterior and aventurine glazed interior