Aurora in Her Chariot

Wedgwood

About 1800

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In an arch with tracery above and below sits a female figure—the patron goddess of industry—among products of the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Sayn—urns, cannon and cannon balls, machine parts, and architectural elements—as an allegory of the iron industry, wearing a crown in the form of a foundry oven, in her left hand she holds a tablet with a crown and the initials "FWE" (ligated) and the year "1826," her right hand holds a stylus, with which she points to the tablet, at her feet is the name of the foundry "Saynerhutte" and a small shield, below the main scene is a band of quatrefoil motifs.
Bust in profile left in the uniform of the Prussian First Infantry Regiment with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, the War Memorial Medal 1813-15, and the Russian St. George's Cross.
Obverse: Triple conjoined portraits staggered in profile right. Reverse: The three members of the triumvirate at a table with a map dividing the Roman world between them.
Large oval platter of caneware in the concave shape decorated in the "Nerots" pattern, the border with a scalloped edge in blue underglaze enamel with a modified fish scale pattern likewise in blue at the indentations, the center with an oval wreath of stylized green flowers and blue berries with six bright red birds resting on it, with six small line-drawn butterflies scattered about.