Aeneas Carrying Anchiese

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Large creamware mug decorated with nine rectangular panels, each either red or blue and each with a letter in silhouette that together spell out the words "A SOUVENIR", superimposed on each of the letters is a line-drawn vignette of London landmarks, including the Tower Bridge; Westminster Abbey; the Post Office Tower; the Tower; Trafalgar Square; St. James Park; Big Ben; Buckingham Palace; and St. Paul's, the upper part of the mug, both inside and out, decorated with sets of three hand-drawn parallel lines on a slant.
Laureate head in profile left, in brass frame.
Oval gray-blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of A Conquered Province, with figure of mourning woman in front of suit of armor on pole, in ormolu frame
Delicate cast-iron bracelet made of three large circular links with pierced motifs of acanthus leaves and a central rosette between three smaller links of pierced foliage with a central floral element; the clasp a large, pierced, and layered floral element.