Leaf-form Scent Bottle

Coalport Porcelain Works

About 1800

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Bust in profile right in uniform.
In the middle the Amazon Column, left a plant stand, and right a three-tiered fruit dish; in the upper left and right corners are supports for a balcony.
Tall, bottle-shaped potpourri vase, of white stoneware covered with a blue glaze and a clear pearl glaze, the main body with a pattern of blue and white stripes below a blue band with molded white swags hanging from ribbons, below this a band of beading and above a band of checkerboard pattern, with two covers, one with flat shoulder and pierced with eight large and eight smaller holes, with long striped neck, the other a small, domed, stripped cover with ball finial is a facsimile.
Plate of white soft-paste porcelain with scalloped edges decorated with the Kakiemon "Two Quail" pattern depicting a scene of two quails, one painted in iron red, and the other in blue with green tipped wing feathers, pecking at seeds beneath an arched prunus tree with blue painted trunk and iron-red and gilt decorated flowers in bloom, and facing a flowering shrub with large leaves, the edge with an iron-red meandering leaf border.