Bishop

Designed by Arnold Machin, Wedgwood

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D-shaped bulb pot of modified bombé form with gilded bands at top and bottom and repeating pattern of gold against white. In the middle a hand-painted landscape in monochrome purple against a green base. Landscape with river scene, house, trees and people, on opposite river bank an abandoned castle.
Soft-paste porcelain candlestick comprised of a figural group featuring a male gardener with spade and his female companion holding a basket of flowers, both wearing hats, their clothing decorated in bright enamel colors, standing on a scrolled base highlighted in blue and puce, behind them a flowering tree that extends upward to become a single candleholder and bobeche in the form of petals and highlighted in green and puce.
Delicate silver creamer with low, tub-shaped body resting on three hooved feet terminating in splayed leafy elements, with long extended spout and beaded edge, the double C-scroll handle with small thumb rest.
Pair of solid white jasper urns with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, each resting on a small square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the round foot with a band of overlapping leaves highlighted with shading, the bulbous, lower body with leafy and lotus elements and the main body decorated with a scene of Apollo and the Nine Muses, likewise highlighted with shading, above the main scene a pattern of floral garlands held in place by small paterae, with two upright, fluted and slightly extended loop handles, along the shoulder a band of anthemion motifs, the conforming flat cover with a band of scrolls along the edge and on top in a star-like pattern stylized acanthus leaves, the tall finial baluster shaped, the interior white.