Mustard Pot

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory

1730-1740

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Reclining Hermaphrodite, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Oval box with green enamel lid.
Black jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of John Locke (1632-1704), was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Large silver pendant, or jewel, made for the secretary of a Masonic group, in the form of two crossed feather quills with a ribbon, at the top a large eye through which to thread a chain from which to hang the jewel.