Large figural group of white earthenware and highlighted sparsely with bright enamels modeled in the manner of 18th-century Staffordshire figures of a bride and groom with a flower girl and ring bearer, the bride is pregnant and holds a large bouquet at waist height, the groom holds a hat in his right hand, the young boy blows his nose on the bride's veil, behind the couple is a tree with flowering branches and on the reverse are animals such as a squirrel, a bird's nest with three chicks and a mother bird, and a rabbit amongst the foliage; incised in the trunk of the tree are two hearts with an arrow through them and the initials of Josiah Wedgwood V and others who contributed to the production of the piece.

Bridal Group

Designed by Arnold Machin, Wedgwood

1943

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Box, glass
Small oval dish, painted with mother and child
Tall, footed vase with cover in a deep blue and white jasper dip, the edge of the foot is decorated in white relief with a band of overlapping leaves and berries delicately shaded to give the impression of translucency, the stem features a band of beading where it meets the body, the lower body is decorated in a stiff leaf / lotus pattern, the main body is decorated in the round with a group of cherubs, or "geniuses" each carrying symbolic objects or playing musical instruments; above the figures is a border of nine bearded men interspersed with laurel branches and above this a border of anthemion motifs, the upper edge of the vase is decorated with an egg-and-dart pattern below a narrow band of ropework, the neck features a band of of grape vines and leaves with bunches of grapes, the conforming domed cover has a similar stiff leaf / lotus pattern and pine cone finial.
Oval self-shanked black basalt intaglio or cypher with white metal ring