Pair of Earrings

House of Chanel

1980s

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Obverse: Conjoined heads right. Reverse: The rolled Constitution within a wreath of crossed laurel and oak branches.
Large creamware, goblet-shaped "Boat Race" vase with polychrome printed designs on both sides with scenes of boats, people, and bridges in shades of blue, yellow, pink, black, and gray, inside the lip a mermaid with curved tail between crossed oars with a sun above.
Creamware teapot molded and shaped to resemble a tree stump, with curved branch handle and spout, in high relief on one side a seated couple in a landscape [Hebe and her lover], the man offering a nest full of eggs to the woman in his outstretched left hand, above them an unrolled scroll with the words FAIR HEBE and additional illegible script, on the other side the portrait medallion of a man [William Shenstone] below the name SHENSTONE and two cherubs underneath placing laurel and acanthus leaves on a wreath surrounding the medallion, overall highlighted with green, blue and brown glazes on cream, the conforming flat cover with leaf and branch finial.
Green jasperware inkwell with white relief design of a group with cage and one other group of figures along with the typical wedgwood trees and flowers