Small, round patch box of enameled copper, the box pink and the cover with a white ground and the portrait of a woman lounging in a landscape, with metal mounts.

Patch Box

Battersea

1753 - 1756

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Orestes and Pylades, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a glass paste by Nathaniel Marchant, cast iron
Dragon lustre bowl with blue exterior and mother-of-pearl interior. The outside of the bowl is decorated with a golden, endless Greek key pattern along the upper rim. A golden pierced band pattern is at the bottom rim of the bowl. A solid golden trim is at the top and bottom rim. Two outstretched three-legged, four-clawed golden dragons with scales and a curled tail stretching across one half of the bowl, each. The dragons have outstretched tongues, bulging eyes, a mane and some spikes along their backs. The spikes, part of the face, and claws are highlighted with red glaze. The dragons have a cross on their upper jaw and a dragonfly hovers in front of them. There is a golden, cloud-like motif with red glaze dividing the two dragons. The upper rim of the inside of the bowl is decorated with a golden arabesque pattern. At the bottom is a fierce, four-legged, curled dragon with a mane. His right front leg is grasping a part of his tail. Different parts of the dragon’s body are highlighted with red, blue, orange, yellow and green glaze.
Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Calliope, who presided over eloquence and heroic poetry, and often holds a tablet or roll of paper and stylus, standing in full figure next to a pedestal.
Head in profile right.