A FRENCH IVORY RELIEF-CARVED EWER, on turned foot with foliate decoration, rising to a knop and bands of fruiting foliage and tasselled ribbons above, the central body with a fine relief-carved frieze with Bacchus, Ceres, Neptune and Venus seated and receiving their respective oblations, a dionysian high priest attended by bacchantes offering fruit and the produce of the land over a flaming altar, armed figures sacrificing a ram beside a flaming altar to Neptune, a band of intricate scrolling foliage above with masks at either end, the handle rising from a griffon's foot and leg to a grimacing mask and finally to the standing figure of a pipe-playing satyr, with everted lip (extensive restorations), 19th Century