Anthony and Cleopatra

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley

1775-1780

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Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Portrait bust in black basalt of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham in classical drapery on round socle (probably not original).
Squat, urn-shaped silver covered sugar bowl resting on a square base that is decorated with bright-cut engraving in a pattern of floral motifs at the corners and bands of squiggly dots between, the round, pierced foot decorated with stylized floral elements in roundels, the body with a pierced middle section in a repetitive geometric pattern that mirrors the decoration on the foot, the upper body engraved with empty circular reserves and leafy and dot swag motifs, the neck with a pierced wavescroll band below a beaded edge, the elongated, domed cover likewise engraved on the inverted shoulder with bands of repeating dots, scallops, and ovals, with small urn finial.
Clasp with pierced wave-and-bead motif, in the middle the portrait head of Anton, King of Saxony (1755-1836; 1827-30) in profile left on steel plate.