Salver

Ebenezer Coker

1768-1769

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Napkin ring of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration comprised of three small relief scenes divided by decorative elements, the scenes include the Bourbonnais Shepherd, Nike and a Warrior, and a group with a cage.
Creamware, Queen's-shape dinner plate enameled in rose-purple with a border of husk festoons and botanical flowers in the well, the "Husk" pattern as supplied to the Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1770.
Large rectangular tablet, originally from a mantelpiece, of buff-colored stoneware (artificial stone or Coade stone) decorated in high relief with a bacchanalian scene featuring scantily-clad bacchantes holding water and wine vessels aloft, a flaming torch and ax, a wreath, a faun's head and baskets, with a ram and small putti at their feet, one of which carries a thyrsus, the staff associated with Bacchus and his followers, to the right is a putti satyr and a putti riding on the back of a ram and blowing a horn.
Blue glaze, stylized branches - rim back