Teapot

Probably Leeds Pottery

About 1780

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Jug of black basalt with encaustic painting, derived from the Greek "oenochoe" form, the foot and body above the shoulder and neck are engine turned, the main body with an image of Daedalus building his wings below a tear drop border that extends around the body below the shoulder, with red trim around the lip and stem and a band of beading around the upper neck.
Long rectangular inkwell of cast iron, the base enclosed by a row of alternating Gothic-style ornaments—a fluted column with a leafy element on top and a shield with Gothic tracery—on either side an outwardly scrolling handle comprised of foliate motifs, the central inkwell with on either side two bulbous cut glass containers with cast iron covers that are decorated in a stylized organic pattern, the finials in the form of stylized leaves, in the middle a cast iron container with tapered, fluted sides and a flat cover similar to the other two and decorated with stylized organic motifs, with same leaf finial.
Priam Begs for the Body of his Son Hector, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a Wedgwood model attributed to John Flaxman, Jr. (model about 1789), cast iron
Cast-iron stove grate, rectangular and pierced, and with two opposing hippocampi on a fountain surrounded by scrolling foliage.