Sterling Pyx Holy Oil Stock Ring Teapot which removed the glossy aspects

which removed the glossy aspects of a standard glaze and rendered the surface texture soft and etheral and in many ways more elegant than the matte type glazes applied prior to firing and popular in the Arts & Crafts movement

Large female bust rendered in faience by the French Art Nouveau era ceramist Edmond Lachenal in his famed “mat email veloute’ ” glaze and modeled by the artist Horace Daillion

wearing a cap reminiscent of a capped half dollar from the 1820s

A solid silver dog in the style of Julius Rappoport

owners name in Armenian

Sterling Pyx Holy Oil Stock Ring Teapot which removed the glossy aspectsMade by Swift & Fisher c1930, monogrammed DI