A clamshell dish in crackled ivory glaze, hand-painted at the center with a tumbling bouquet — cabbage roses in dusty pink, sprigs of daisy and yellow wildflower — and finished with a generous band of gold along every fluted edge. The fan of the shell is ribbed in gilt that catches the light; the scrolled hinge gives it that proper rococo curl. Reads as a soap dish, a ring dish, a spot for earrings by the sink, or simply a pretty thing to set down a bracelet at the end of the day.
