Tankard

Staffordshire

About 1761

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A solid light blue jasper candlestick on square plinths with truncated corners, with a white jasper cherub figure supported by a tree trunk covered in creeping ivy and with a small campfire at the base of the tree and representing the season winter, the candle nozzle is fashioned to look like icicles.
Oval black basalt intaglio with double profile of warrior and woman?
Candleholder of black basalt in the form of a bearded, naked Triton with seaweed clinging to his thighs sitting atop a rocky base and holding in both hands a whorled conch shell that functions as the candleholder.
Small enameled copper box, rectangular, with dark blue ground and gold highlights with reserves on the sides containing small floral sprays, the lid painted in a reserve with the scene of a man and woman with a sheep in wooded landscape, the box inscribed on the inside with the French "Vous Appas armes mes Bras."