Bulb Bowl with Insert

Wedgwood

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Tall, heavy vase of black basalt with long narrow cylindrical foot with impressed geometric motifs around the middle created by the roulette wheel, the upper body bowl shaped with a wide indented band around the middle and narrower opening at top, the interior covered with a red-maroon colored glaze.
Tea bowl and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the tea bowl with an engine-turned lower body, the main body decorated with cupids at play in a landscape with a flower basket, birds and insects, an urn and a dog, with a lapidary-polished interior, the saucer (possibly a marriage) engine turned on the interior resulting in light green and white stripes, the rim decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves.
Two ash and burl ash armchairs, the cabriole front legs end in small scrolls, the arm supports curve inward and likewise end in small scrolls that function as handholds, the arms lathe-turned, terminating in a carved, stylized anthemion motifs where they meet the stile, the back square and each crest rail is set with three green jasper medallions with classical motifs: .1) "Germany and Turkey with amorini grieving for Elisabeth" (from the 1790 series designed for sale in Germany, most of which celebrate the accession and virtues of Leopold II of Austria, who succeeded his brother Joseph II in January 1790. Elisabeth was the favorite niece of Joseph II, who died in February 1790); (probably) "Cybele, goddess of nature and fertiliy"; sacrificial scene (unidentified); and .2) "Fame inscribing a vase to the memory of Elisabeth" (from the German series); "Hercules strangling the Nemean lion" (modeled by William Hackwood ca. 1773); "Germany and Turkey with armorini grieving for Elisabeth" (from the German series); the striped green silk upholstery new
Vulcan's Forge, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron