Sauceboat

Staffordshire

1765 - 1770

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Round blue jasper medallion with white relief of putto with bird meant to be one of the four seasons by William Hackwood this one representing spring.
Covered sugar bowl of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, the conforming cover similarly decorated with button finial.
Fitzhugh pattern with Nanking border
Black basalt footed ewer on a small, plain, square plinth, the foot and body engine turned, the body intersected about one quarter down from the shoulder with a wide band of overlapping leaves and berries, the long neck with a narrow band of beading around the middle and the ruffled spout slightly elongated, the curved, molded loop handle terminates in a faun mask.