A vaguely moral statement is illustrated by familiar caricatures of a wily Silas Marner ty...

A vaguely moral statement is illustrated by familiar caricatures of a wily Silas Marner type on one side and two rogues sampling the grape on the reverse, all set off by a tangle of grape vines running rampant over this glossy mid-century parian form.

This miser pre-dates Eliot's Silas Marner, deriving from a Dutch 17th century painting by...

This miser pre-dates Eliot's Silas Marner, deriving from a Dutch 17th century painting by David Teniers (Louvre). The figure also appears on Pratt-type ceramics we have owned as early as the 1790's.