Medallion, Taurus or Bull

Wedgwood

1957

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Creamware pitcher with a pearl glaze molded in high relief with a fluted loop handle with leafy terminals highlighted in green and blue and a leafy spout highlighted in blue, with a raised blue band at the shoulder and below it against a stippled ground the portraits of three men, on one side a man clutching a jar within a reserve outlined in green, above him a banner that reads SPENDTHRIFT supported by a portrait in profile left, under the spout the portrait of William Shakespeare with brown hair and wearing a blue cloak, with a two-part banner that reads SHAKESPEAR / THE POET, likewise supported by two portraits in profile left, on the other side in a reserve similar to the first, a man with a bag of coins and a banner above that reads THE MISER along with a portrait in profile left.
Dance of a Satyr and a Nymph, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Oval buckle comprised of a solid light blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Psyche – a classically draped, floating female figure with butterfly wings holding a draped cloth – set into a pierced and beaded cut steel mount.
Covered urn of white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the lower body with acanthus leaf motifs, the main body divided into four reserves with decorative lattice work in between, each reserve with an applied white classical vignette, including the Three Graces, Cupid as Oracle, a Sacrifice; and Nike and a Warrior, with a band of ivy leaves and ribbon just below the shoulder and with acanthus leaves around the neck and on the cover, with drop finial.