Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

Description

Contributors

by Elizabeth Williams

Publisher & Date

RISD Museum, 2022

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Selected Objects

A white teapot with a handle, spout, lid and finial, with green, red, blue, pink, yellow and gilded decorations. The main vignite shows a dragon on a table.

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Teapot

A cream ceramic bottle with a thick rounded lip tapering out to a cylindrical body. There is a dark rust colored spot and a blue line.

Unknown Maker, American

Hiram Wheaton & Sons Beer Bottle

A short boat shaped pitcher green, cream, and brown in color with a sculptural handle and floral decorations.

Unknown Maker, English

Sauceboat

A white teacup with a swirling handle. Gold and pink decoration at top edge. Central design features two birds on a branch.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Cup

A silver covered jar and dipper that has long feet, a chain connecting the body and lid.

Unknown Maker, South American

Mate Cup with Bombilla

A bottle with delicate swirling blue decorations and a rounded, shiny red stopper.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Snuff Bottle

A silver tea caddy with a lid and sculptural finial. There are swirling engravings along the body and lid.

Hester Bateman

Tea Caddy

A brass and wood urn that has a decorative foot, lid, various handles and rings, and spout. The entire vessel has highly decorative engravings.

Unknown Maker, Persian

Samovar

A white bowl with lid and finial with green, red, blue, pink, yellow and gilded decorations. The finial is a sculptural flower white, red and green.

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Sugar Bowl with Lid

Sculpture of a caricatured Chinese figure wearing a floral garment and black hat. The figure holds a small animal on their lap.

Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Incense Burner in the Form of a Chinese Man

Jonathan Clarke

Teapot

William Swan

Strainer

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Tea Bowl

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Cup

A white, blue and gilded teapot with a long straight spout, a handle, and lid. The central decoration depicts a heraldry bird with a shield and objects in its talons.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Coffeepot

Unknown Maker, Italian

Plate with Egg Cups and Salt Dish

A bronze-colored jug.

Unknown Maker, English

Jug

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Coffeepot with cover

Unknown Maker, Korean

Ewer, Koryo

Unknown Maker, American

Kenyon Smith & Co. Jug

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Batavia Ware Teacup, Qianlong

Unknown Maker, Persian

Ewer

A silver vessel with a foot, rounded body that goes to a cylindrical top half, and the lid is perforated with small holes and floral cutouts.

Samuel Wood

Caster

A white cup with two symmetrical handles and a lid with a decorative finial. There are also delicate black floral decorations.

Canon August Ernst Otto von dem Busch of Hildesheim

Bouillon Cup with Lid

Unknown Maker, Italian

Jug

A silver utensil with a long skinny handle and bulbous end with small holes.

Unknown Maker, South American

Drinking Straw with Filter (Bombilla)

A silver vessel with a foot, rounded body that goes to a cylindrical top half, and the lid is perforated with small holes and floral cutouts.

Samuel Wood

Caster

A tankard with a handle that has delicate enamel and gilded decorations.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Rockefeller Service Tankard

A silver container with small feet and a curved, open handle on top. Inside are several glass vessels with silver mounts.

Hester Bateman

Caster Set

An open vessel with a deeply scalloped rim. A central decoration of two birds and a tree is surrounded by vertical bands of blue with gold diamond shapes.

Sächsische Porzellanmanufaktur Dresden

Monteith

A sculpture with three figures in elaborate historical clothing. One is in the tree while the others stand below next to a ladder and a basket of cherries.

Johann Joachim Kändler

The Cherry Pickers

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Cup

Unknown Maker, Syrian

Lamp

A silver creamer with a sculptural handle and three protruding feet.

Samuel Casey

Silver Creamer

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Water Jar, Edo Period

Jan Van Duijn

Tea Caddy

A white punch bowl with a short foot and teal, green, pink, and red floral decorations along the body and inside of the vessel.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Punch Bowl

A white bowl with flat handles and lid. The blue decorations are architectural and floral.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Sugar Bowl

Unknown Maker, French

Travelling Chocolate Set

A bowl with glided, blue, green, and pink decorations. The body is decorated with flowers and a figure resting on an anchor. Word below the figure says “SMITH.”

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Sugar Bowl

A white vessel with two symmetrical handles with blue decorations, heraldry imagery, two figures with light hair. One holding a staff and the other is blindfold and holding scales.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Sugar Bowl

A brown covered bowl with blue floral decorations inside a white central ground.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Batavia Ware Bowl with Cover

Unknown Maker, German

Stein

A sculptural dark gray ceramic lamp with multiple holes to the interior, in the shape of a human-like face.

Unknown Maker, Greco-Roman

Lamp, Hellenistic

Teapot with a swirling, marbled design on the body and lid in brown, blue, black, and cream. Spout, handle, and rounded finial are solid cream colored.

Unknown Maker, English

Mochaware Teapot

A rounded cream colored vessel with a square handle, decorated with geometric and flower designs in blue, green, and red.

Unknown Maker, Turkish

Tankard

A dark blue decorative sauce boat. Two symmetrical sculptural handles that depict a bird’s head, foot, and lid with rounded finial

Enoch Wood and Sons

Sauceboat

A brown and tan mug with a silver, scalloped rim.

Unknown Maker, English

Mug

A flask that is dark gray, blue, and white. The body is angular and has textured sections whereas the foot and top are rounded.

Unknown Maker, German

Screw-Top Bottle

A tin coffee pot with painted orange, yellow, and green floral decorations.

Unknown Maker, American

Toleware Coffeepot

An oval serving dish. Decorated in the center with multicolored butterflies.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Tureen Stand

A bulbous orange ceramic jug with a handle.

Unknown Maker, American

Jug

A two-handled silver cup. Incised image of a stylized angel head with wings above an oval shape containing the monogram “P I M.”

William Gamble

Caudle Cup

A leaf shaped dish in green, yellow, and white with a pink stem. Five insects depicted on plate: a lady bug, two butterflies, a caterpillar, and beetle.

Chelsea Porcelain Factory

Dessert Dish

A metal tool with small cutouts in the bowl and an ivory handle.

Unknown Maker, English

Sugar Sifter

A lidded vessel on an organically shaped tray. A small, swirled finial is on the lid. The body of the vessel has ridges covered with a mottled, multi-colored glaze.

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Tureen with Cover and Stand

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Coffeepot

A wide, shallow, footed vessel with two handles on either side, curving upwards. The body is black and tan colored with an abstract design.

Unknown Maker, Greek

Drinking Cup (Kylix)

A white plate with a gilded and pink edge and floral patterns. Center design features two birds perched on leafy branches.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Saucer

Silver sculpture in the shape of a palm tree, sitting inside an urn.

Andreas Blytt

Incense Burner

A sculpture of a woman holding a child on top of a rectangular base, covered in red, white, and brown stripes.

Ann Agee

Red Stripe Madonna with Drawer

A cream-colored basket with sculptural woven handles, sculpted foot, and a lid with cutout designs.

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Creamware Chestnut Basket

A bulbous teapot with white, green, and yellow floral decorations in the form of a leafy pineapple.

Unknown Maker, English

Teapot

Bronze-colored sculptural object with incised design. Top half is teardrop shaped with a crescent moon shape on top. Cylindrical vessel on bottom.

Unknown Maker, Pakistani

Incense Burner

Unknown Maker, English

Teapot

A white saucer with green, red, blue, pink, yellow, and gilded decorations. Decorations separated into four vignettes; two animals and two scenes of a table and vessels containing floral elements.

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Saucer

Unknown Maker, German

Bottle

A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Putto Holding Globe

A large pot in the shape of a cauliflower with a green base and white top. A tall handle arches directly above the lid.

Unknown Maker, English

Punch Pot

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Punch Bowl with Arms of Rhode Island

A brown and tan mug with a silver, scalloped rim.

Unknown Maker, German

Tankard

A gray-white lidded bowl with delicate blue symmetrical decorations and a finial with turquoise decorations.

Unknown Maker, Moroccan

Jobbana (Lidded Bowl)

Samuel Vernon

Tankard

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Teapot

A tan colored mug with floral decoration in relief. Top is covered by a gold hinged lid and the base is surrounded by a thin gold band.

Unknown Maker, German

Mug

Unknown Maker, English

Creamware Tray

Unknown Maker, English

Tankard

Samuel Vernon

Pepperbox

A sculptural figure with black skin, a colorful headdress and skirt. This figure is standing next to a bright yellow covered sugar basket with floral decorations.

Unknown Maker, German

Sugar Basket

A cream-colored dish with two swirled handles and pierced decorations. Dish sits on a matching tray.

Unknown Maker, English

Creamware Sweetmeat Dish

A silver wine funnel with a large cup and small spout.

George Brasier

Wine Funnel

A brown coffee pot with a long straight spout, handle, foot, and lid with decorative horizontal grooves and projecting grooves. The final which is spherical in shape.

Unknown Maker, English

Coffeepot

A silver salt spoon the bowl comes to a pointed tip, the neck is thin, and the handle is thicker and rounded at the end.

Henry L. Webster

Salt Spoon

A silver chocolate pot with a spout, hinged lid, and fruitwood handle that is 90 degrees from the spout.

Joseph Smith

Chocolate Pot

A silver salt spoon with a bowl that comes to a blunt flat tip and a neck that starts out thinner and goes to a thicker rounded handle.

William S. Morgan

Salt Spoon

Silver sugar tongs with small ends and a thicker handle portion.

Nehemiah Dodge

Sugar Tongs

A silver vessel that has an octagonal body, handle, and lid that has floral perforations.

John Tanner

Caster

William Greatbatch

Creamware Teapot

A bowl with undulating sides and rim. Cream and brown colored with a crackled surface and abstract designs scratched into the surface.

Ōtagaki Rengetsu

Tea Bowl

A cream-colored cup with a sculptural swirled handle, and lid with sculpted finial.

Unknown Maker, English

Creamware Custard Cup with Cover

A sculptural figure on a rearing horse in historical clothing that is yellow, pink, and white with floral decorations. The figure is holding a staff and ball.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Europa on a Horse

A brown sculptural creamer in the shape of a cow with horns. There is a small flat lid in the center of its back.

Unknown Maker, American

Creamer

Silver sugar tongs with decorative cutouts.

Ezekiel Burr

Sugar Tongs

A long silver utensil with a decorative body and has one small bulbous end.

Unknown Maker, South American

Drinking Straw with Filter (Bombilla)

Round plate decorated with an image of buildings and trees. There is a concave well in the center of the form.

Unknown Maker, Italian

Salt Dish

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Teapot, Chakri Dynasty

A silver, shallow vessel with a simple circular handle. Ribbed and circular decorations on the body.

Unknown Maker, French

Wine Taster

Unknown Maker, Italian

Youth Holding a Pipe

A wood and pewter mug that has a hinged lid and handle. The pewter is cut out and shows the wood on the interior.

Unknown Maker, German

Mug

Small vessel in shades of reddish brown and black, standing on three rounded feet, with a cream colored lid.

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Bizen Ware Tea Caddy, Edo Period

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Chocolate Cup

A white and blue chocolate pot with a spout, handle, and lid, the edges of the lid and spout are gilded. The decorations mainly depict floral, architectural, and landscape elements.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Chocolate Pot

A white plate with a gilded and pink edge and floral patterns. Center design features two birds perched on leafy branches.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Saucer

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Sugar Bowl and Cover

A small vessel with a cream, blue, and green mottled design. Three sculptural feet are shaped like lion’s paws with lion heads attached to body of vessel.

Unknown Maker, English

Agateware Creamer

A silver teapot with a decorative angular handle, a rounded square body and spout with sculptural decorations.

Simon Harris

Teapot

A cream colored sculptural figure holding a vessel, dressed in historical clothing with tightly curled hair.

Unknown Maker, German

Figural Standing Salt

A yellow teapot with cream, orange, and brown circular designs dripping down at the bottom. Handle, spout, and final are cream colored.

John Shorthose

Mochaware coffeepot

A pentagonal pewter tea caddy with floral decorations.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Tea Caddy

A teapot with a shell shaped body, decorative spout, and animal sculpted finial for the lid. It is mottled blue, brown, and cream in color.

Unknown Maker, English

Agateware Teapot

A small mustard pot that is white, light brown and dark brown. The lid and handle are rounded and there are swag floral decorations on the body.

Unknown Maker, English

Mochaware Mustard Pot

A silver caster with a square foot with small balls in each corner, the lid is perforated.

Thomas Wallis I

Caster

Rounded clear glass with etched designs next to a brown woven basket of the same shape. A small, tan-colored implement lays to the left of the basket and glass.

Unknown Maker, English

Tumbler with Carrying Case and Stamp

A sculpture with three figures in elaborate historical clothing. A seated light-skinned figure holds a roll of maps while one child examines. A second child sits near them.

Johann Peter Melchior

Map Seller and Two Children

Silver sugar tongs that are delicate and swirled.

Unknown Maker, American

Sugar Tongs

A mottled brown teapot with an image of a pineapple in the center. Two spouts are on the left side, and a rounded handle with a flat top faces right.

Unknown Maker, English

Double-spouted Teapot

A small, mottled brown box with rounded corners.

Unknown Maker, American

Nutmeg Grater

A shiny, brown colored coffee pot with yellow, white, and orange and abstract floral decoration. The spout has a right angle and then a curve.

Unknown Maker, American

Toleware Coffeepot

A sculpture of a figure in historical clothing and a table, a sack, and broken egg shells. The ground is brightly colored red, brown, and green.

Johann Wilhelm Lanz

Man Breaking Eggs

A gray-white circular cooking placate with blue, green, and gray symmetrical linear decorations.

Unknown Maker, Spanish

Dish

Vessel in the shape of a white squirrel with brown patches and a blue ribbon arounds its neck. It holds a brown nut with green leaves up to its face.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Teapot

Rounded metal container with raised floral designs. A small circular metal ring attached to the top.

Unknown Maker, Malaysian

Tobacco Box

A platter with dark blue decorations depicting a coastal scene. Images of shells along the border.

Enoch Wood and Sons

Cape Coast Castle Platter

A tan colored tool with decorative handle and a textured wheel. There are letters on the part attaching the wheel to the handle.

Unknown Maker, American

Pie Crimper or Jagging Wheel

A leather beaded pouch with white, black, red, and green beaded designs. There is a handle as well as fringes with metal and leather decorations.

Unknown Maker, Apache

Tobacco Pouch

Unknown Maker, English

Tortoiseshell Ware Tea Bowl and Saucer

A white saucer with green, red, blue, pink, yellow, and gilded decorations; separated into four main vignites, two animals and two tables and vessels containing floral elements.

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Saucer

A sculptural figure sitting next to a large basket. The basket and figure are covered in floral decorations. The figure is wearing a hat, cream and purple clothing, and red shoes.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Turkish Woman with Sugar Basket

A dark green jug with sculpted decorations, symmetrical decorative handles, and a foot.

Unknown Maker, Mexican

Botijo (Water Jug)

A silver chocolate pot with a decorative swirled body, lid, and fruit wood handle.

F. Ducot

Chocolate Pot

A jug with a band of red, yellow, and black daisy decorations at the top. A prominent gray tone figure and flora on the body of the vessel.

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Roger Williams Jug

A bulbous vessel with a rounded, flared neck. Two large, abstract leaf-shaped designs are scratched into the shiny surface.

Unknown Maker, Zulu

Beer Fermentation Vessel

A white lidded vessel with dragons and bugs decorations. There are two sculptural handles with figure’s heads at the top. Finial has light green, leaf-like decorations.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Ice Cream Pail

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Flagon with Arms of Rhode Island

A rectangular vessel that curves at the top with blue and white decorations depicting architectural, floral, and landscape elements. The lid is circular and has a delicate finial.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Tea Caddy

A cream colored teapot in the shape of a camel with a hexagonal lid.

Unknown Maker, English

Teapot

A tea caddy with a lid and green, red, blue, pink, yellow and gilded decorations. The finial is a sculptural flower white, red and green.

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Tea Caddy

A silver and baleen coin ladle. The handle is twisted and dark and the ladle is silver with a small coin in the center.

Unknown Maker, English

Coin ladle

A bronze mortar with protruding decorations on the exterior.

Unknown Maker, French

Mortar

A cream colored plate with red and gold floral, structural, and abstract decorations.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Batavia Ware Saucer, Qianlong

Unknown Maker, German

Tankard

A bronze double ended pestle that is thicker at the ended and thinner in the middle.

Unknown Maker, Italian

Pestle

Round, blue glazed vessel with dark thin swirling patterns on body. Two thin handles flare upward. Interior and four feet are brown, unglazed clay.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Incense Burner, Ming

A mottled brown teapot with protruding feet, a spout, handle, and lid. The finial on the lid is connected to the handle by a chain.

Unknown Maker, English

Tortoiseshell Ware Teapot

A sculptural vessel in the shape of a goose. The purple body is accented with diamond-shaped decorations in green, blue, yellow, and orange.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Goose Tureen and Cover

A green sculpted tile of a figure with long hair and beard, holding a stick-like object.

Unknown Maker, German

"Wildman" Stove Tile

Sculpture of a light skinned man with a goat on his lap. He holds a dark brown instrument in one hand and drinks from a vessel in the other.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Harlequin with Goat As Bagpipes

A traveling set with silverware. The traveling case has an orange colored fabric. There are multiple indents holding the silver, steel, and gilded cutlery and vessels.

Johann Martin Satzger

Traveling Set with Silverware

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Water Pipe

A dark brown teapot in the shape of a figure wearing a hat.

Unknown Maker, American

Snuff-Taker Toby Teapot

Worcester Porcelain Company

Dragon in Compartments Hot Milk Jug

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Pudding or Jelly Mold

A black teapot with metal decorations on the spout, lid, and handle with a chain connecting them.

Unknown Maker, English

Coffeepot

Unknown Maker, English

Creamware Sauceboat

A silver caddy spoon with figurative and sculptural elements.

Unknown Maker, Dutch

Caddy Spoon

White and blue vessel with a flared foot, rounded body, and two necks in opposite directions. Necks are closed with silver caps attached to the vessel with delicate chains.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Double-Necked Vessel, Ming

A white chocolate pot with blue decorations depicting floral and architectural elements.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Chocolate Pot

A vessel with a cylindrical bottom and bulbous top. Covered in white and blue abstract decoration

Unknown Maker, Mexican

Jar

Unknown Maker, English

Pearlware Mug

A silver-colored jug with floral motifs on the body of the vessel.

Unknown Maker, English

Jug

A silver vessel with a foot, rounded body that goes to a cylindrical top half, and the lid is perforated with small holes and floral cutouts.

Samuel Wood

Caster

A purple covered cup with raised woven texture. The handle is sculptural and swirled.

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Jasperware Custard Cup with Cover

Tall rectangular clear bottle with rounded stopper. A floral design with leaves and swirling lines is etched on the front and back.

Unknown Maker, American

Bottle

A silver salt spoon with a bowl that comes to a blunt flat tip and a neck that starts out thinner and goes to a thicker rounded handle.

William S. Morgan

Salt Spoon

Vessel with an elongated, flared neck. Black background has an orange design with a winged figure holding a trumpet in one hand and a vessel in the other.

Pan Painter

Oil Flask (Lekythos)

Sculpture of a light skinned figure with grapes dressed in historical clothing that is gold, white, blue, pink, and red.

Pierre Stephan

Autumn

A white and brown bowl with green, yellow, and pink floral decorations with a short, small foot.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Batavia Ware Bowl

An elaborate, sculptural, three-tiered dish. Colored in brown, green, and cream with floral decorations as well as sculpted fish decorations.

Unknown Maker, English

Creamware Sweetmeat Dish

Lidded yellow box shaped like a lemon. Molded green leaves with a large bud and small pink flowers are applied to the top and wrap around the side.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Lemon-Shaped Box

A silver coffee pot with detailed delicate decorations, handle with a lid hinged to it, and spout.

Unknown Maker, Indian

Coffeepot

A silver salt spoon the bowl comes to a pointed tip, the neck is thin, and the handle is thicker and rounded at the end.

Henry L. Webster

Salt Spoon

A sculptural figure kneeling next to a basket. Figure wears bright, elaborate clothing with a hat with a feather. There are floral decorations on the figure’s clothing and basket.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Turkish Man with Sugar Basket

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Wine Cup (Sakazuki)

A silver salt container that is rounded on the inside and angular on the outside.

John Tuite

Salt

A brown and white covered vase with pink, green, blue, and yellow floral decorations.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Batavia Ware Vase

Unknown Maker, German

Pitcher

A lidded sugar bowl with floral decorations in gilded vignettes, surrounded by dark blue glaze, the finial on the lid is a sculptural red, white, and yellow flower.

Worcester Porcelain Company

Sugar Bowl

A white chocolate pot with delicate blue decorations with ribbed body, spout, handle, and foot.

Unknown Maker, German

Chocolate Pot

A silver nutmeg grater that is abstractly shaped like a nutmeg.

Unknown Maker, English

Nutmeg Grater

A silver, glass, and gilded mustard pot with a protruding spoon. The lid is hinged to the angular handle. The decorations are raised.

William Aitken

Mustard Pot with Spoon

A silver salt container that is rounded on the inside and angular on the outside.

John Tuite

Salt

A silver utensil with a long handle and one end that is slightly larger and has small holes.

Unknown Maker, American

Drinking Straw with Filter (Bombilla)

A teapot in the shape of a pineapple. Handle, foot, lid, and spout are green.

Unknown Maker, English

Teapot

A bulbous red vessel with black abstract designs, leaning slightly to the right. The lid has a small round handle.

Unknown Maker, Probably

Covered Jar

Unknown Maker, Persian

Hookah Base, Safavid

A figure dressed in historical clothing, holding a box in one hand and consuming something from the other hand.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Snuff Taker

A cream-colored ladle with a shell shaped bowl and simple necked handle that comes to a flared out point with linear decorations.

Unknown Maker, English

Creamware Ladle

A clear stemmed glass with a rounded foot and thick gold rim. An image of figures walking in a group with words above them are etched in the sides.

Unknown Maker, German

Wine glass

A jug with a rounded handle and pierced designs. The cream colored body is decorated with images of ships and a tree.

Unknown Maker, French

Puzzle Jug

A mottled brown pitcher with a spout, handle, and multiple delicate feet. There are swirly gold floral decorations.

Unknown Maker, English

Tortoiseshell Ware Cream Pitcher

Unknown Maker, German

Incense Burner

A dark silver spice box that is sculptural and has many different rounded compartments.

Unknown Maker, Indian

Spice Box

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Coffeepot

A sculpture in the shape of a small white house, covered in different colored flowers.

Unknown Maker, English

Pastile Burner in the Form of a Cottage

A silver sauce boat with a sculptural handle, high lip for pouring, and three protruding feet. There are floral engravings along the body of the vessel.

Matthew West

Sauceboat

A square pressed glass cobalt blue salt container. It has four feet close to each corner with decorative textured sections.

Boston and Sandwich Glass Company

Salt

A completely rounded bottle with a neck and two symmetrical handles. There are symmetrical decorations that are dark blue, turquoise, and yellow.

Unknown Maker, Moroccan

Pilgrim Flask

A jar with white, orange, and blue symmetrical decorations.

Unknown Maker, Italian

Drug Jar (Albarello)

A sculpture in the shape of an elephant with a castle on its back. The decorations are white, blue, green, and yellow.

Unknown Maker, English

Pratt Ware Money Box

A rounded vessel sitting on a pedestal with a scalloped foot.

Unknown Maker, Korean

Wine Cup on Pedestal, Koryo

An oval white salt container with blue and gilded decorations.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Trencher Salt

Chinese export, Trencher Salt, 1790-1800
Porcelain with underglaze blue,glaze and overglaze enamels and gilding

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Trencher Salt

A short green bulbous jug with a tight rim, handle, and foot.

Unknown Maker, American

Jug

Edward Medlycott

Blackjack Tankard

Container with a rectangular bottom and rounded top. White body with designs in black and brown. Yellow stripe down the center and yellow handle on top.

Gien Faience Factory

Humidor

A rounded, green colored vessel with incised floral designs.

Unknown Maker, Indian

Wine Cup of Emperor Jahangir, Mughal

A box in the shape of a shell with mottled dark brown pattern. Silver band around bottom edge.

John Wakefield

Snuffbox

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Tureen with Cover

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