Toilet Box and Cover

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

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Paperweight with a small recumbent lion with crossed paws on rectangular base.
Small tin-glazed earthenware tile with an opaque, bluish ground, transfer-printed in black with the scene of a couple in 18th century garb dancing in a landscape with a pyramid in the background, within a scrolled border.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid white jasper with dark blue dip and flat white relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a draped nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a draped nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask.
Medallion with profile portrait of Lord Hillsborough (1717-1793), known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era. Best known in North America as the Earl of Hillsborough, he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772, a critical period leading toward the American War of Independence.