Tea Bowl and Saucer

Leeds Pottery

About 1790-1800

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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.
The seated figure of a woman in unglazed hard-paste biscuit porcelain dressed in classical garb reading a book atop a footed lamp in the form of a canoe-shaped antique oil lamp, this painted with overglaze enamels in a greenish tone that simulates patinated copper (vert bronze), with decorative gilding
Figure modeled after the statuette of Vischer on the Sebaldus Tomb in the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg.
Small, rectangular tablet of white jasper with peach-green jasper dip and white relief decoration of Apollo and four of the Muses.