Sauceboat

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

1765-1770

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Small, round medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration with the scene of "Nike and a Warrior," Nike carrying a palm branch to symbolize victory, she stands on one side of a statue of Athena with a helmeted warrior on the other, set into a simple silver mount with an eye for hanging.
One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Europe: the figure of a female child wearing a white tunic decorated with flowers and cinched together with a yellow ribbon, over her shoulders she wears draped a yellow and red cloak, at her feet are symbols of the arts, sciences, and religion such as paintbrushes and a painter's palette, sheet music, books, and a bishop's miter scattered amongst flowers, in her right had she holds an orb, her left hand raised and outstretched, on her head a crown.
Apollo Belvedere, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Small hollow drum for a lamp or candelabrum of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, round and with a hole at each end, the body with a band of oak leaves at the bottom and a band of intersecting circles at the top, the central body with four small relief scenes including, Cupid as Oracle; Endymion on Latmos; Hebe giving sustenance to the Eagle; and Coriolanus (Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome), between a series of dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs.