Achilles Dragging Hector around the Walls of Troy

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Documentary encaustic-decorated, two-handled, covered vase of black basalt, after the antique kantharos form, shield-shaped with upright strap handles, painted in red with on one side a bearded Jupiter seated with thyrsus (a staff or spear tipped with an ornament like a pine cone) and Ganymede standing with a komast (drinking) cup in the Greek red-figure style, the other side decorated with an elaborate foliate scroll cartouche and inscribed inside “W. M. Moseley 1788”, the flat cover with a broad cylindrical finial decorated with a border of acanthus leaves and geometric patterned bands.
Elongated oval or leaf-shaped dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of female holding lamp and foliage, set in steel as buckle, several cracks
Sacrificial Scene, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a model by Wedgwood, cast iron
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of a Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) facing right. unmarked but three small firing holes to back. Probably taken from a medal in 1789.