Plate with decoration of tobacco leaf butterfly

Plate

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

1753/56

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Tall covered urn of black basalt on round foot the edge with a band of acanthus leaf motifs the stem with a pattern of stiff leaf elements and with a beaded waist the lower body with gadrooning and the main body with a scene of Bacchanalian Boys in relief after Lady Diana Beauclerk including on one side a satyr putti sitting on rocks eating grapes another sitting under a tree holding a staff one putti sitting under a tree and dozing and one kneeling with a basket of bunches of grapes on the other side two putti with a staff two carrying a third in their arms and one seated on a rock with pan pipes trees divide the two sides above the main body is a band of feathery floral motifs and at the shoulder a band of masks two of which are Bacchus and symbols of the arts and sciences the shoulder with stylized leafy fronds and floral drops with beading around the neck and lip stiff leaf motifs on the neck and two intricate lion or leopard handles the corresponding cover with leafy fronds and a finial in the form of a seated draped putti with an instrument
Small oval medallion of solid dark blue jasperware with white jasper bas relief of Terpsichore a classical female figure holding a lyre standing next to a column with a figure on top set in gold mount with simple looped edge with eye for a chain
Group of three figures
Round black and white jasper medallion with profile portrait of HRH The Prince of Wales 1894 1972 was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year Edward was the eldest son of George V and Mary of Teck He was named Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday nine weeks after his father succeeded as king As a young man he served in the British Army during the First World War and undertook several overseas tours on behalf of his father Edward became king on his fathers death in early 1936 However he showed impatience with court protocol and caused concern among politicians by his apparent disregard for established constitutional conventions Only months into his reign he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing marriage to Wallis Simpson an American who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Dominions opposed the marriage arguing that a divorced woman with two living ex husbands was politically and socially unacceptable as a prospective queen consort Additionally such a marriage would have conflicted with Edwards status as the titular head of the Church of England which at the time disapproved of remarriage after divorce if a former spouse was still alive Edward knew that the British government led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would resign if the marriage went ahead which could have forced a general election and would ruin his status as a politically neutral constitutional monarch When it became apparent that he could not marry Wallis and remain on the throne Edward abdicated He was succeeded by his younger brother George VI With a reign of 326 days Edward is one of the shortest reigning monarchs in British history After his abdication he was created Duke of Windsor He married Wallis in France on 3 June 1937 after her second divorce became final Later that year the couple toured Germany During the Second World War he was at first stationed with the British Military Mission to France but after private accusations that he held Nazi sympathies he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas After the war Edward spent the rest of his life in retirement in France