Classical Figures with Cupid

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Small slender heavily engraved silver sugar tongs the arms straight and decorated with bright cut engraving in a repeating pattern of floral and leafy motifs the pointed wells with cross hatching with an oval reserve designed for a monogram left empty between cross hatching and leafy elements
Silhouetted figural plaque
One of a set of four large figures of soft paste porcelain representing the Four Quarters of the Globe each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents Europe the figure of a female child wearing a white tunic decorated with flowers and cinched together with a yellow ribbon over her shoulders she wears draped a yellow and red cloak at her feet are symbols of the arts sciences and religion such as paintbrushes and a painters palette sheet music books and a bishops miter scattered amongst flowers in her right had she holds an orb her left hand raised and outstretched on her head a crown
Blue and white octagonal plate with fan and circle shaped windows The fan shaped windows have different landscape and water scenes painted in blue underglaze while the circles have a floral and plant designs The center of the plate has a structure to one side of the river with some trees and foliage On the underside on the plate the rim has stylized branches painted in underglaze