Miniature coffee and tea set with pattern #348 (gold wreath between two red lines). Set consists of teapot, coffeepot, hot water kettle, tea caddy, sugar bowl with cover, creamer, tray, six saucers, five teacups without handles, and three cups with handles.

Miniature Coffee and Tea Set with Tray

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Plate, Coupe shape
Oval black basalt medallion with profile portrait of Virgil facing right
Wedgwood floral brooch featuring a bone china flower on a metal mount
Large, cast iron tobacco box in the form of a seated, bearded Sir John Falstaff wearing sixteenth-century garb with a large belt and ruffled collar in a scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" (act 2, scene 4) in which Falstaff pulls his dagger and proclaims "…this chair shall be my state, this dagger my scepter…!" Falstaff is seated in an armchair whose armrests end in goat's heads, below the chair on either side is a bearded male mask; Falstaff's crossed feet rest on a small stool, the chair and stool rest on a base decorated with scrolls; his right arm is raised and his hand holds the handle of his dagger (the blade is broken off); his left arm rests on the chair's armrest while his left hand supports a long sword, which rests against his knee. The upper torso is hinged and opens to reveal the interior of the tobacco box.