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Eric Owen, Wedgwood

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Newton with a 'shooting star' on the right with a blue background, white portrait.(1642-1727) was an English natural philosopher and mathematician. Newton's formulation of the law of gravity from observing the fall of an apple came in 1666. He went on to devise a reflecting telescope and study Descartes' geometry. His most important published work is the Principia mathematica of 1684. His Optics first appeared in 1704. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Classical Marriage Scene, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Small round medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white bas relief of an "Offering to Jupiter" — Jupiter is seated on a stool with a staff and an eagle by his side, a young maiden approaches him with a large round bowl — in a cut-steel mount set with two bands of faceted cut-steel beads and a wider band of small cut-steel beads arranged in a floral pattern between single, larger, oval, faceted cut-steel beads, the reverse with a brass and steel pin (a later addtion or repair)
Cast-iron buckle pierced at each end with rosettes, acanthus leaves and stars.