Sweetmeat Dish

Wedgwood

1969

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Miniature coffee and tea set with pattern #348 (gold wreath between two red lines). Set consists of teapot, coffeepot, hot water kettle, tea caddy, sugar bowl with cover, creamer, tray, six saucers, five teacups without handles, and three cups with handles.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief portrait of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1772 to 1785. He was accused of corruption and impeached in 1787, but after a long trial he was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1814.
Creamware hot water kettle on stand, the kettle plain and bulbous with double rope, twisted bail handle that terminates on either side in floral heads, the base of the spout is supported by a female head, with flat cover with mushroom finial, the conforming stand of circular form and supported by three masked feet, the body of the stand is embellished with decorative piercing, with two rope twisted handles and three lugs which prevent the kettle from sliding.
Delicate cast-iron bracelet made of three large circular links with pierced motifs of acanthus leaves and a central rosette between three smaller links of pierced foliage with a central floral element; the clasp a large, pierced, and layered floral element.