Small rectangular, enameled copper box the lid and sides painted in a gilt lattice work pattern with floral sprays on the sides, the lid with an oval reserve in which is painted the half-length portrait of a woman, with gilt metal mounts.

Hinged Box

Bilston

About 1760

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A two-drawer commode (with no lateral division between the drawers) with an oak carcass and walnut drawers of slight bombé shape with a serpentine white-and-gray-veined marble top with molded edge and shaped apron on four tall, curving legs, the front divided into three decorative panels, the central panel in the shape of a cartouche framed in scrolled and foliated gilt bronze partially entwined with foliated sprays, from which emerge four richly scrolled and foliated sprays of leaves raised to form drawer handles, each panel is banded by amaranth and kingwood and inlaid with trailing sprays of flowers and leaves, with similar marquetry panels on both sides with elaborate gilt-bronze foliated mounts, the legs outlined with gilt-bronze bands wrapped with foliated vines and terminating in foliate sabots, each drawer is fitted with a small keyhole of gilt bronze in the center of the front.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief profile of an elephant with lapidary polished edges
Snuff box of enameled copper in the shape of a heart, the bottom yellow and the lid with white ground and a shield containing a three-mast ship with blue flag, the shield surrounded by a garland of flowers, at the top a crest with a sheaf of wheat, with metal mounts.
Pipe bowl of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration that includes a grape vine around the upper edge and leafy vines and berries around the shank, the lower reservoir is a poor replacement (not Wedgwood), on the main body the relief image from the series Domestic Employment.