Pedestal Dish

Wedgwood

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Small, deep jelly mold of creamware with a pearl glaze in a pattern of baluster-shaped spines around the body that extend to a simple pattern of rectangular sections along the lower edge of the mold.
Marsyas Playing the Double Flute (aulos), Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Oval black basalt intaglio with portrait of Homer on square plinth
Large rectangular desk, or bureau Mazarin, inland with floral marquetry of various stained and natural woods on an ebony ground, raised on eight straight legs of tapered rectangular section, which are connected by two flat, interlaced stretchers, in the front is a central drawer with a recessed cupboard depicting a theatrical mask, and on either side tiers of three drawers, with a shaped apron below each tier of drawers and central cupboard, the top edged in gilt wood and with a central vase holding a floral bouquet with scrolling foliage and strapwork, birds and insects surrounding it, with like marquetry decoration on the other three sides.