Salad Plate

Royal Doulton

  • Titles Salad Plate (Descriptive)
  • Artist Royal Doulton, England
  • Medium bone china
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.4227.2008
  • Work Type plate
  • Classification Containers

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Large potpourri vase of green jasper dip with white jasper relief decoration, resting on square plinth decorated with a floral motifs, the round foot with applied white jasper relief decoration that includes ribbon molding and lotus motifs, the lower body with a band of scroll molding, the main body decorated with four small beaded reserves within which are four winged Zephyr figures, the body also decorated with in high relief large rams' heads supporting heavy floral garlands and margents suspended from ribbons, the pierced cover with a band of egg and dart motifs and pinecone final, a second flat cover of white jasper with a button finial lies inside.
Oval medallion of light blue jasper with white jasper relief depicting the "Bourbonnais Shepherd," a man sitting on a rock under a tree with a dog.
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.
Small enameled box in the shape of a heart with a white ground and blue lattice pattern on the box and lattice pattern with additional reserves - three - containing Chinese figures in a pinkish shade, with metal mounts.