Sugar Tongs

Charles White

About 1840

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Small delicate finely modeled porcelain teapot in the form of on one side a dandy with bangs long red hair and a moustache wearing a kind of pink artists cap his head tilted slightly right his large collar bound with a loose pink tie over a smartly tailored green suit with a large yellow sunflower on his left breast his left arm bent and resting on his hip forming the teapots handle his right arm slightly outstretched and bent at the elbow with his right hand limp and pointed downward forming the spout on the other side the teapot is in the form of a woman sporting a similar hairstyle her hair also red wearing a large white ruffled collar a similar cap on her head and a large white lily on her right breast over her fitted green smocked gown in opposition to her companion it is her right arm that is bent to form the handle and her left arm is outstretched and bent at the elbow to form the spout the head is removable forming the cover with a band of gilding around the foot
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Sir William Hamilton
Vulcans Forge Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Gleiwitz cast iron
Small oval medallion of solid light blue jasperware with white jasper bas relief of the god Mercury in a landscape striding right with his attributes the caduceus in his left hand and a goat or ram symbolizing fertility behind him set in a brass mount with decorative elements on each side