A Group of Cupids

Wedgwood

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Large silver chalice with straight-sided tapering bowl that is plain except for the molded border below the lip, resting on a spool-shaped stem with a central knop of ogee form, the spreading foot joins the stem with a cast, ribbed band, engraved with the words OF HARNE on the upper exterior of the cup below the lip, the interior originally gilded.
Bowl and underdish with japan pattern in blue, red and gold. Inscribed on the bowl and underdish are oval seals or panels with Arabic or Persian writing. The short walls of the underdish have two sparse sprigs of flowers and leaves on the outside only, while the inside is inside having an elaborate design of a central circular composition of flowers, leaves and vines. The two oval inscribed seals are composed in the middle of two bands along the inside rim of the underdish. The bowl has elaborate decoration and inscription seals on the outside and inside.
Oval basalt self framed medallion with profile portrait of the famed mathmetician and scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) facing right.
Trophy plate of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, with a central vignette of the Aurora in her Chariot surrounded by scrolled ribbon and vine banding, the border with floral festoons terminating at ram's heads, trophies and small figural cameos with classical subjects, with a band of florets around the rim.