Vase

Designed by Jean Sala, Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis

About 1940

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Drawer pull with moulded floral design
Creamware flatback figure of Aunt Chloe from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" standing in full figure on a round base, her arms, face and shoes are glazed black, otherwise her two-piece dress and headscarf as well as the basket she holds in her left hand are white and picked out in bronze lustre, with the name AUNT CHLOE written in bronze script on the front of the base.
Heavy rectangular inkwell of cast iron resting on a total of ten block feet, the base in the form of a Gothic architectural structure comprised on each long side of a colonnade of three ogee arches and on each short side of two ogee arches with blind Gothic trefoils, crockets, and leafy finials with small battlements in between, each corner a kind of shield with leafy motifs, the inkwell proper with two openings for sand and ink (the glass inserts now missing) with covers decorated with organic motifs and stylized leaf finials, in the middle a central well with tapered and fluted body and leafy lip and foot (the cover is missing).
Oval medallion of white jasper with dark blue dip and white jasper bas relief of Apollo standing in a landscape with a lyre, set in a gold mount with decorative looped edge, with hook for a chain.