A Continental porcelain Etruscan-style vase, circa 1830-50, probably Paris, painted in iron-red, black and shades of buff with vignettes of charioteers and figures flanking a stele between gadrooned, key-pattern and palmette borders, 31.5 cm. high; together with a Continental white biscuit figure of Spinario, after the antique, modelled as a youth seated on a mound above a rectangular base The decoration of this vase is inspired by the designs of ancient vases in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton, published in d'Hancarville, P-F. H, Collection Of Etruscan, Greek And Roman Antiquities From The Cabinet Of The Honble. Wm. Hamilton ... = Antiquités Etrusques, Grecques Et Romains, Tirées Du Cabinet De M. Hamilton ..., Naples, 1766/7, the scene of charioteers is adapted from Vol. I, pl. 130, a design from the Meidias Hydra, the stele is derived from Vol. I, pl. 55, on a volute krater known as the Hamilton vase, with flanking figures after a departure scene of a warrior and women, Vol. II, pl. 71. This stylised red and black figure-painting inspired potters such as Josiah Wedgwood and a raft of Neapolitan, French and continental makers such as Sèvres, Dagoty and Honoré of Paris. The connection with ancient pottery is further re-enforced by the use of the pelike form derived from an antique vessel for liquids.