, I have copied from a leaf-shaped dessert dish of early workmanship. The dish is beautifully painted in small groups and sprigs of flowers, thrown indiscriminately on the surface, and intermixed with well-painted insects. The form of the anchor varied, as is natural to be supposed, according to the idea of the workman, and it was occasionally drawn with the cable attached. Figs. [382 to 389] exhibit some of the varieties; they are drawn in different colours, red, blue, and brown, and in gold.
Two anchors, side by side, occasionally occur. Fig. [381] is from a small vase in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. The vase is of deep blue colour, with peacocks, and is painted in compartments and richly gilt. An anchor and a sword, or an anchor and two swords, are not unusual marks, and Fig. [391] is an elegant vase, with open-work rim, on which it occurs. The raised flowers are beautiful in their modelling, and the colouring is extremely good. Between the flowers, leaves, &c., are painted on the vase, which is also decorated with butterflies, caterpillars, and other insects. On either side is a cherub’s head, surrounded by raised flowers. The mark on this vase engraved (Fig. [392]) is the usual anchor, preceded by a dagger, in red. It is worthy of remark that on the inside of the cover of the centre vase—a globular cover surmounted by a bird, and covered with raised flowers of similar character to those on the vase here given—the mark is reversed, the anchor preceding the dagger.
Fig. 381.
Figs. 382 to 389.
Fig. 390.
