Soft-paste porcelain iris flower on a brown mound base, decorated in shades of blue, purple and yellow with green leaves.

Iris

Derby Porcelain Manufactory, William Duesbury & Co.

About 1810

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Small hollow pedestal for an unidentified object of white jasper with green and lilac jasper relief decoration (tricolor), the round foot with overlapping leaves of green jasper, the round columnar body with green floral swags held in place by lilac ram's heads, on top a thin square plinth in lilac jasper, with a hole to accommodate a screw.
Rectangular box with miniature of a woman (signed Regot) under the lid. Painting folds out to create an easel.
Large, heavy round plaque of solid light blue jasperware with applied decoration in white jasperware, in high relief the classical scene of Marsyas seated on a large block draped in an animal skin, his arm around the young Olympe, who himself is draped in an animal skin cloak and holds a flute in each hand.
Bust three-quarters right. A pendant to the portrait of her husband, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1986.475a).