Miniature Dish with Lobster

England

18th century

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Oval self-shanked black basalt intaglio with profile portrait of man's head, large chip to edge back of head
Creamware teapot with molded cabbage spout and molded, ear-shaped handle, transfer-printed in carmine red on both sides of the pot with a scene of two exotic, or Liverpool, birds in a landscape with two additional birds in flight, the conforming cover printed in red with a scrolled, floral wreath, with plain mushroom finial.
Urn-shaped potpourri vase or bulb pot of solid white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and applied white and dark blue jasper relief decoration, on round foot with a band of acanthus leaves around it and engine turned to create a blue and white checkerboard pattern with darker blue quatrefoils on the white squares, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaves and a laurel leaf vine running horizontally around the waist, the upper body likewise engine turned to create a blue and white checkerboard pattern with applied darker blue jasper quatrefoils on the white squares, with a white insert cover pierced with seven holes, the interior with a sump cover over the bolt.
Bust in profile left. This may be modeled after a design for the Luther Monument in Wittenberg.