Simple silver sugar tongs decorated with bright cut engraving in a pattern of narrow, curving, intersecting bands comprised of scallops and dots, at the curved end in an oval reserve engraved the initials HMB, the pointed bowls with minimal prick-dot engraving.

Sugar Tongs

Peter Bateman, Ann Bateman, William Bateman, London, England

1802-1803

See More of the Collection

Large bowl on smallish round foot, the body constructed of different thin slabs of clay which overlap to form the bowl creating an irregular, somewhat pointy but graceful body, glazed in various mottled shades of brown, tan, ocher, and gray green.
Oval blue medallion with white relief profile portrait of Rousseau (1712-1778) facing right, Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer and composer in the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. "Julie, or the New Heloise" was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. In addition, during the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the French philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club.
Rectangular light blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Priam begging for the body of his son Hector, broken at center and repaired
Bust in profile left in Prussian general's uniform with the sash and Order of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, and the War Memorial Medal 1813-15.