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Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

About 1755

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Sculptural vase of white porcelain with seven coral or leaf-like forms with ruffled edges extending out from the center.
Octagonal dragon lustre bowl with lavender/blue exterior, and pale turquoise pearlized interior. The outside of the bowl is decorated with a golden, endless Greek key pattern along the upper and bottom rim. A solid golden trim is at the top and bottom rim. Two outstretched three-legged, four-clawed golden dragons with scales and a curled tail stretching across three fields of the octagonal bowl, each. The dragons have outstretched tongues, bulging eyes, a mane and some spikes along their backs. The spikes, part of the face, tongue, tail and claws are highlighted with red glaze. The shoulders and hips of the dragons are highlighted with green glaze. The dragons have a cross on their upper jaw and a dragonfly hovers in front of them. The upper, inside, rim is decorated with a repeating oval and diamond pattern. Below are three outstretched, scaled, golden dragons, equally distributed. Different parts of the body are highlighted with purple, red and green glaze. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with golden geometric and floral pattern on purple, red and green glaze.
Oval black jasper medallion with relief white profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) facing left, wearing a fur hat. Taken from a terra cotta portrait by John Baptiste Nini.
Obverse: Triple conjoined portraits staggered in profile right. Reverse: The three members of the triumvirate at a table with a map dividing the Roman world between them.