Aphrodite

Designed by Arnold Machin, Wedgwood

1954

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Half figure of a bearded man reading a folio.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Tall vase of white stoneware, bottle-shaped and covered with an opaque agate glaze in shades of brown, black, green and cream, resting on a small, square white stoneware base decorated with a diaper pattern border, with twisted rope bail handle that shows traces of gilding.
In central square panel the Neue Wache in Berlin, designed 1817-18 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the cast-iron bridge over the Operngraben; in the upper left corner a monument in the form of an obelisk for Johann Gottlieb Fichte, erected at the Oranienburger Tor cemetery in Berlin; in the lower left corner a monument for Count Wilhelm von Schwerin in the Krekow church; at right a monument in the form of a tall obelisk with four lions on the base for the Russian Prince Kutusow, erected in Bunzlau, designed by Schinkel, the lions after models by Johann Gottfried Schadow.