Oval medallion with portrait of an unidentified classical male facing left

Classical male

Wedgwood

About 1795

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Soft paste porcelain figure of a man selling fruit emblematic of autumn standing in full figure on a pierced rococo base highlighted in gold green and puce to his right a flowering branch that offers the figure support around his waist a blue apron bag holding a bunch of various fruits and additional fruits are in his outstretched left hand wearing flowered britches and jacket with puce hat and shoes
Bowl David Puxley Wedgwood glazed stoneware
Mug David Puxley Wedgwood glazed stoneware
Heavy thistle shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base The vases exterior is a mixture of multiple colors throughout light and dark brown dark green black and the color of the unglazed stoneware The dark glaze begins near the middle of the vase continuing downward to the bottom of the thistle form and pooling in drips and continuing towards the bottom of the vase The vases exterior features thin lines impressed horizontally into the form The lines are irregularly spaced throughout the vase occuring mostly at the top of the vase on the bottom half of the thistle form and the bottom of the cylindrical base The vases lip is mostly dark brown and unglazed stoneware The vases interior is unglazed stoneware with thin raised lines circling the form that correspond in placement with the impressed lines on the exterior