Wall Pocket

Staffordshire

About 1760

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Round, cast-iron medallion with the portrait bust of Apostle John the Evangelist three-quarter right with his head facing front, his left arm rests on a book and in his left hand he holds a scroll, behind him on his right is a cup with a viper in it, his emblem, in memory of the challenge to him by a high priest of Diana at Ephesus to drink a poisoned cup
Plate, Wedgwood, Queen's ware
Small cup-shaped vase with foot, of white stoneware covered with a brown glaze, the main body fluted and decorated with a series of cream and brown stripes, below the lip a band of cream with applied brown star-shaped and clover motifs between two rows of beading, the interior glazed brown.
Pair of cast-iron earrings, from a central pierced and scrolled element hang two small filigree tassels flanking a central, larger tassel also of filigree.