Bowl

Lowestoft Porcelain Factory

1770 - 1810

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Teapot, Wedgwood, stoneware (rosso antico ware)
Obverse: In the center a laurel wreath. Reverse: In the center a bundle of arrows.
Cup and saucer of enameled buff-colored caneware, the cup footed with a band of blue around the foot and a bamboo-molded handle, the exterior fluted and decorated with blue and white enamel to resemble a band of bamboo poles with blue bands and bamboo leaves, the cup edged in blue, the conforming saucer likewise edged in blue and with the same blue and white bamboo pattern around the interior rim.
Tall, heavy, urn-shaped vase of black basalt resting on small square base, the round foot with a band of acanthus leaves at edge, the lower body with large applied stylized acanthus leaves and separated from the upper body by a band of bound rods that encircle the body, the upper body on each side with the same relief scene of Prometheus chained to a rock and being attacked by an eagle, who attempts to eat his liver, with two large molded handles of draped female herm figures with outstretched arms, their hands entwined with, or bound by, snakes, the flat shoulder extends to a long neck that is decorated on each side with rams heads, the upper protruding edge is fluted, with pointed cover.