Honey Pot with Cover

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Figural candlestick of solid white jasper and solid white jasper with a thin light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, modeled as Pomona wearing a chaplet of fruit in her hair, standing and holding a cornucopia that supports the flower-shaped candle nozzle, on square plinth with applied white husk ornamentation.
Seal with bust of Napoleon I Bonaparte as grip.
Heavy, round, footed vase or bowl of rough reddish-brown stoneware with small white flecks, the exterior turned to produce a kind of striated surface that adds to the roughness of the piece, the lip folds inward to create a relatively wide edge, the interior covered with a dark glossy brown glaze.
Oval blue jasper medallion with profile portrait of Priestley (1733-1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, English Dissenters clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works.