Miniature Mug

Staffordshire

About 1840

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Dance of a Satyr and a Nymph, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Drawer pull with impressed floral design
Pair of bulbous, urn-shaped potpourri vases or bulb pots of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, each on round foot with band of acanthus leaves, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaves, the main body engine-turned to create an alternating lilac and white checkerboard pattern, with applied green quatrefoils on the white squares, with a band of lotus motifs running around the neck and a band of white jasper around the upper edge, the interiors with sump covers and each with a pierced insert cover with six small and one large hole.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a woman selling flowers, emblematic of spring, standing in full figure on a rococo base highlighted in gold and green, to her left a flowering branch that offers the figure support, around her waist a white apron filled with bunches of flowers, her left arm encircles the flowering branch, wearing a flowered and striped skirt with purple bustle and puce bodice tied together with gold string over a white blouse, her hat is red and blue.