Bowl David Puxley Wedgwood black basalt with glazed interior

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David Puxley, Wedgwood

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Small hollow drum for a lamp or candelabrum of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration round and with a hole at each end the body with a band of oak leaves at the bottom and a band of intersecting circles at the top the central body with four small relief scenes including Cupid as Oracle Endymion on Latmos Hebe giving sustenance to the Eagle and Coriolanus Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome between a series of dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs
One of a set of four large figures of soft paste porcelain representing the Four Quarters of the Globe each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents America the figure of a male Caribbean native child with red skin wearing a colorful feathered costume and headdress and carrying a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder his left hand holds a bow under his right foot and resting against a stump decorated with flowers is a small green caiman with open mouth
Small chamberstick of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration the saucer with an outer band of overlapping leaves and in the well a circular pattern of stylized acanthus leaves the candleholder is blue and white striped and has a series of garlands around the neck the loop handle of white jasper and with a thumbrest in the form of an acanthus leaf