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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH NOVEMBER, 1861.
Back boiler-range, of new pattern. Economical cottage-range.
These park gates are represented in the accompanying plate 108. An economical close fire-range or cooking stove, complete, with Ornamental rustic domé of cast iron, bronzed, 20 feet in diameter large wrought plate-iron oven, and portable bars. The grate is lin by 30 feet high, supported by six double pillars, with finials of guarded with strong fire-bricks, and fitted with boiler, steamer, and fish- ing falcons, and surmounted by an ornamental weather-rod, and a kettle. vane formed by a statuette of "Eolus," modelled by Johm Bell; the summit of the vane is 46 feet above the flooring of the dome. The structure is adapted for glazing, as a green-house, a summer- house, a covered garden, orchestra, or receptacle for a public statue in metal or marble. It contains an iron casting of the "Eagle-slay- er," 11 feet 6 inches high, including the pedestal. The eagle, trans- fixed by the arrow of the archer, forms the centre ornament of the roof of the dome. English design: C. Crookes and J. Bell.
This dome with the "Eagle-slayer," is represented in the accom- panying plate 112.
Ornamental fountain of cast-iron, bronzed, seven feet wide, by eight feet high, with group of "Cupid and the Swan." The group formis the jet, and occupies the centre of a tazza, ornamented with a decoration of the white and yellow water-lily. English design: John Bell.
Ornamental chimney-piece and grate, with decorations illustrative of deer-stalking, boar-hunting, and hawking. The figures are of cast-iron, electro-gilt, and the mouldings are marbled. The grate consists of burnished steel front, and ornaments in bronze, electro- gilt. The decoration connects, in one design, the fender, ash-pan, and grate. The fire-brick for the back is in one piece, including the bottom of the grate, on which the fire rests. The fender, ash-pan, and grate remove in one piece, to afford greater convenience in clean- ing the chimney. The ends of the mantel-piece are decorated with bronze electro-gilt and glass vases; the centre is enriched with a bronze group of the Death of the Stag." Modelled by B. W. Hawkins, designer.
Bright ornamental grate, composed of burnished and sprung steel front, with electro-gilt ornaments, novel panels and moulpings, and a marble mantel-piece. English design: Charles Crookes. Black cottage register-grate of very simple construction. Kitchen-range, consisting of an oven, with hot closet, both of wronght plate-iron, with dampers of novel costruction, by which the flues are easily cleaned; a large grate for fire, with portable bars; a | strong back boiler of wrought iron, with suitable water and steam taps; iron chimney-piece with side and back plates complete; the whole with steamer attached.
Ornamental cast iron fire-dog, or andiron, from an Italian design. Ornamental fenders, in steel, bronze, and or-molu, complete with fire-irons.
Ornamental vase and base, adapted for a garden, fountain, or other ornament: of foreign and English design. This vase is represented in the adjoining page 47,
This space occupied by Illustration.
The Eagle Slayer, cast Iron. Manufactured by the Coalbrook Dale Iron Company,
Ornamental cast-iron bronzed flower-pot stands, of English and foreign designs.
One of these stands is given in the anexed illustration. Serpent-handled vase and base for earthen pot, with flowers: classic design. This vase is represented in the following illustration.
Single deer's-head vase and base, for earthen pot. English design.
CLASS XXV.
CHINA, PORCELAIN, EARTHENWARE, ETC.
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MINTON, H., & Co., Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire-Manufacturers,
[Obtained the Council Medal in Classes XXV, and XXVII. in 1851; and the Grande Medaille d'Honneur in Paris, in 1855.] 1. Dessert Service, consisting of assiettes montées, round, oval, and triangular baskets, jelly stands, wine coolers, cream bowls, salt cellars elevated and low comports, perforated china, in turquoise and gold, painted Cupids, flowers and fruit, with Parian figure and ornamental supports; ornaments, gilt and chased, and candlesticks in Parian, gilt, and plates of various patterns.
18. * Pair of beaded vases, with a turquoise ground, painted pink, Copids in compartments, and gilt.
Porcelain Vases.
2. Large vase, with perforated ornaments, decoroted, and finished with or-molu mountings.
3. Pair of Parnassus vases, being a combination of china and Pa- rian; the china in mazarine and gold, and the bas-relief, Apollo and the Muses, in Parian.
4.
Vases, a pair, bleu de roi, aud a pair Sèvres green: the grounds, with painted flowers, and raised festoons, gilt.
5. Pair of vases, with foliage handles, green and gold, and paint- ed festoons of flowers.
6. * Pair of vases, with perforated chain handles, bleu de roi, with painted flowers, and gilt.
7. * Set of three jardiniers, green and gold ribbons, and painted groups of flowers.
8.* Pair of festoon vases, green ribbons, pink and gold, spotted ground, painted flowers and birds, gilt.
9. Pair of egg-form vases, turquoise ribbons, painted wreaths of flowers and laurel on one side: groups of flowers on the reverse, and gilt.
10. Pair of round perforated vases, blue and gold spotted ground, painted festoons, and wreaths of flowers tied with ribbons and gilt. 11. Pair of vases, turquoise and painted wreaths of flowers, with festoons of oak, laurel, &c., gilt.
12. Rope festoon vases, mazarine and Sèvres green grounds, and gilt.
13. Pair of Harewood bottles, mazarine ground, and gilt. 14. Pair of jardiniers, mazarine ground, painted wreaths of flowers, &c., gilt.
15. *
Pair of husk vases, mazarine stripes, and gilt.
16. Pair of rope festoon vases, Sèvres green ground, painted fes- toons of oak and laurel, and wreaths of flowers, bird in compartment, and gilt.
17.* Pair of beaded vases, turquoise ground, and painted flowers,
gilt.
Porcelain Inkstands, Semur, Card Trays, &c.
19. Inkstand, green and gold diamonds, painted birds, in compart- ments, and roses in small ecumpartiments, gilt.
20. Cross-bar inkstaud, turquoise cross-bars, painted wreaths of flowers, crossing turquoise, and gilt.
21. Tukstand, Sèvres green cross-bars, painted wreaths of flowers, and gilt.
22. Pair of wine coolers, mazárine ground, painted Sèvres groups, in compartments, and gilt.
23. Pair of scaux, turquoise diamonds, painted birds in compart- mruts, and roses in small compartments, and gilt.
24. Pair of scaux, mazarine ground, painted flowers and fruit in compartments on one side, and birds on the reverse, gilt.
25. Pair of seaux, turquoise and stripes, painted flowers and fruit in compartments on one side, and birds on the reverse, and gilt.
26. Pair of seaux. Cupids painted in pink, and gilt.
27. Card tray, painted landscape, figures and cattle, gilt.
28. Small hexagon card tray, Sèvres green ground, painted wreaths
of flowers, tied with ribbons, and gilt.
29. Oval tray, painted sprays of wild flowers, and gilt.
30. Perforated flower stand, on claws, turquoise and gold, and painted flowers.
31. Pair of candlesticks, with figures in the costume of the time of Louis XV.
Porcelain Cups and Saucers, Dessert Plates, Dinner Plates, &c. 32. A variety of tea-cups and saucers, dessert and dinner plates, and déjeuné sets.
Parian Figures, Vases, &c.
33. Equestrian figures of Amazon (after Fauchère), and Theseus; two groups of Children with Goat.
31. Statuettes:-Dorothea, Miranda, Clorinda, Una and the Lion, Triton and Nautilus, the Babes in the Wood, by John Bell. The Infant Neptune, by H. J. Townsend, The Distressed Mother, from the statue by Sir R. Westmacott. Cupid indignant, with pedestal, and festoons of raised flowers. Temperance, Flora.
* The cases, &c., marked with an asterisk are all after old Sèvres models, with new decorations after the old Sèvres style.