Pair of Bottle Coolers

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

1753-1756

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On a square base with four leafy feet, the pierced round pin cushion holder with padded pin cushion in the center on a foot with eight stylized leaf supports, atop the pin cushion kneels a winged cherub supporting a padded thimble holder on its head.
Shallow, wide bowl with short sides and abstracted glaze decoration in the well in shades of brown, green and black.
Figure of the poet John Milton standing at a podium on a rectangular base in contemporary dress with drapery, holding in his left hand a scroll upon which a text from his "Paradise Lost" in gilt reading, " ....just and righteous. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
Rectangular black jasper plaque with white relief scenes of Cupids in the arts