Tea Caddy

Leeds Pottery

About 1780

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Slightly convex dish with impressions for a cup. The dish's exterior is smooth black basalt. The interior is glazed black and the dish's lip is unglazed. There are two concentric circles impressed into the dish's interior.
Tall vase of white stoneware, bottle-shaped and covered with an opaque agate glaze in shades of brown, black, green and cream, resting on a small, square white stoneware base decorated with a diaper pattern border, with twisted rope bail handle that shows traces of gilding.
Large rectangular tablet of solid white jasper with dark chocolate brown jasper dip and white jasper relief decoration depicting Orestes and Pylades at the Temple of Diana, with the priestess Iphigenia, including a simple pillared temple in the center containing a shrine with the figure of Diana on a pedestal and a small altar, on the right of the temple the priestess Iphigenia stands in front of the shrine, turning back to Orestes and Pylades who stand bound and guarded by a figure wearing a Phrygian cap, on the left Iphigenia gives a letter to Orestes and Pylades, who are now freed, while a figure holding a shield aloft stands behind her.
Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Urania who presided over astronomy, and often holds a compass used by astronomers in her hand, standing in full figure next to a pedestal with a globe at her feet.