Jug

Leeds Pottery

1810

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Bust in profile left in French civil servant's uniform with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
On a thick, rectangular plinth decorated on each side with the Greek key pattern, gilt, the top of the plinth is bronzed, rest two Egyptian sphinxes whose outstretched wings support an oval bowl which has been molded with a raised, pattern of loose ribbons on the sides and underneath with the head of Bacchus surrounded by grapes and leaves, the headdress of each sphinx is gilded and around the edge of the bowl is a band of gilding that extends to the two swan's head handles as well as the gadrooning on the bowl's shoulder, the conforming cover rests on the gilded, beaded edge of the bowl and has a gilded lotus finial.
Charger with depiction of Adam and Eve
Tall lamp in two parts of cameo glass in the Art Nouveau style, the slender vase-shaped base on a round foot supports a two-tiered, domed shade, the lamp decorated in shades of yellow, orange, brown, and white with a winter landscape scene - the foot highlighted in white to resemble snow, the stem decorated with the trunks of brown, barren trees which continue to the shade, displaying their leafless branches against a somber orange sky, the branches are picked out in white to represent fallen snow; the shade is held in place by a pronged "clip" attached to the base.