Plate

Staffordshire

About 1760

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Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Domitian (51-96 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name DOMITIAN impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Oblong, with jagged edges.
Small creamware dish of lobed shape with three stout conical feet on the underside, with an elaborate molded, scrolled handle highlighted in deep cobalt blue, the shell edge highlighted in same blue and gold.
Bust in profile right.