Aesculapius and Standing Hygeia

Wedgwood

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Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, each of the interior sides and above and below the printed scene a border of small blue octagonal elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.
Cup and saucer of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the cup with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, with loop handle that is angled at the top, around the rim of the saucer a band with the stem of the same plant.
Oval medallion of black basalt with bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Vespatian (9-79 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name VESPATIAN impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Hercules Holding the World, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a model by Wedgwood, cast iron