Confronting Heads

Wedgwood

About 1776

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Round covered sugar bowl modeled to look like a cauliflower, the bowl with overlapping leaves and stem glazed green, the domed cover resembling the white florets, with cauliflower finial (the cover is not original to the bowl).
Large, rectangular tablet of white jasper with peach-green jasper dip and white relief decoration, with a scene of Apollo and the Muses below a series of floral swags supported by paterae from which hang trophies.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a so-called "Mansion House Dwarf" or "Dwarf Crier" standing in full figure on a round, grassy base and wearing black shoes with pink ribbons, a striped pantaloons with floral doublet and pink sleeves, with gilded highlights, holding a staff in his left hand, with large brown mustache and wearing a tall conical hat with narrow brim highlighted in gold and with a black ribbon, the top of the hat has a piece of newsprint with advertisements.
Rectangular black jasper plaque with white relief scene of Blind Man's Bluff modelled by John Flaxman. This bas relief was first modelled by John Flaxman Jnr in 1782, as a direct response to Wedgwood's request for: ‘Some groups of children, proper for bas reliefs to decorate the side of Tea pots.’ Four drawings were originally sent to Wedgwood, one of which was entitled ‘Blind Man’s Buff’.