Side Chair

Florence, Italy

16th century reworked in the 19th or 20th century

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Box with painting of a couple embracing, man holds a sword.
Creamware teapot molded to resemble a pineapple with scrolled handle and leafy green spout, the globular body with green leaves extending from the foot up, the rest of the body and conforming flat cover with a diamond-like pattern glazed honey brown, with green finial.
Plaster cast of the Portland Vase taken from the mold that was taken from the original vase from which Josiah Wedgwood made his copies, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage.
Plain cream-colored stoneware mortar and pestle, the pestle with a rounded wood handle.