Wine Cup

England

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Bust in profile left in the uniform of the Prussian First Infantry Regiment with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, the War Memorial Medal 1813-15, and the Russian St. George's Cross.
Head in profile left in decorative cast-iron frame.
Small vinaigrette in the form of a fish of a bass type with gray-green scales and red fins, the middle opens up to reveal a small container covered with a pierced lid of gilt silver, with additional gilt silver mounts and eye attached to the nose for hanging.
Buff-colored, sculptural teapot of glazed porcelain with a spout that looks like a thumb and a cover that features an elephant head atop a seated human body, the teapot body with on one side an elephant in relief within a reserve highlighted in gold, the body also decorated with a transfer-printed frieze under the spout and skeleton figures and other motifs around it, with a banner under the spout that reads TUSKER.