Butter Tub, Cover and Stand

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Black basalt stirrup cup in the form of a fox head, with silver mount and stand
Large round, self-framed wall plaque, or roundel, of black basalt with the image of a Centaur teaching Achilles the kithara in relief against a red encaustic ground, framed by a reeded border with criss-cross ribbons and fluted cavetts.
Bust in profile left in civilan dress with the Order of the Black Eagle and the Iron Cross, in cast iron frame.
Ewer of solid white jasper with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on square plinth decorated with white anthemion motifs, the round foot likewise with anthemion motifs, the stem with a band of beading and the lower body with lotus motifs, the main body with the applied figures of the nine Muses below a band of stylized anthemion motifs, above that a frieze of five small relief scenes in oval reserves, with beading around the neck, ruffled spout and snake handle.