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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Centrepiece, or mantelpiece ornament, comprising a vase and flanking figures on a plateau, hard-paste porcelain, the vase thinly potted with a good translucency and clear glaze, stepped foot, waisted and with a flaring lip, decorated in gold and in pink lustre with a border below the lip of Egyptian masks and ritual sceptres, and with a gilt freize of stylised lotus, papyrus and rushes below; flanked by two kneeling Egyptian female figures in biscuit porcelain, with nemes head-dresses and with robes secured with a star clasp below their bares breasts, all in matt gilding; their hands, positioned behind them, reach towards oval rings pendant from the vase (two missing); vase and figures bolted and cemented to a rectangular plateau, painted in black, and with four cemented gilt lion paw feet.
