DELFT DISHES (18TH CENTURY)
BRASS WARMING-PAN (DATED 1602)
BRASS FIRE-SIDE SET (18TH CENTURY)
The cover of the warming-pan, given on page [147], furnishes an excellent specimen of perforated and engraved brasswork. The central figures represent Venus and Cupid, while interwoven with the strap and foliated ornaments are grotesque figures, beasts and birds. Each little part of the design is engraved, and around the outer margin of the pan is a Dutch inscription which embodies the date of 1602. Further well-executed piercing and engraving, but of a later date than the above, appear on the tea-caddy here illustrated (page [148]). This latter object is 6 inches high and 4 inches wide. The pastille-burner (page [148]) is made wholly of brass. Upon the baluster stem and circular base are rococo designs beaten-up in relief. Made of wickerwork, the coffer reproduced on page [147] is adorned with handsomely shaped and perforated brass mounts that extend around it.
WICKERWORK COFFER WITH BRASS MOUNTS (18TH CENTURY)