Clock Case

Wedgwood

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Bust in profile right.
Highly polished, head faces left
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration featuring a tree on the left along with a bit of a tree branch at the left edge, and three Dancing Hours figures, all on thin ground.
Set of four, tall, sterling silver candlesticks architectural in form and neo-Gothic/neoclassical in style, each with a large, square base decorated with a diaper pattern within which are stylized flowers raised against a stippled ground, the corners are covered with upwardly scrolling acanthus leaves; from the base the stick rests on a fluted foot upon which sits a square pedestal from which extends the actual stick, which is composed of two slender columns at each edge with acanthus leaves at top, all bound by three sets of three bands each; between the columns are quatrefoils; the finial is in the form of a footed urn, the foot with four individual trefoils between acanthus leaves, the urn is also decorated with trefoils and stylized acanthus leaves, and holds a square, removable bobeche with pierced corners and scrollwork; on three of the four bobeches is an engraved crest: an eagle with outstretched wings atop a crown set with feathers.