Commemorative Plate

Wedgwood

1892

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Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in slate blue-gray jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage. The white jasper used for the relief decoration has been given a blue tint prior to being pressed into the molds.
A soft-paste porcelain figural group of a standing female and seated on the ground near her feet is a lamb facing the opposite direction. The female figure is in a dress with painted flowers along the hem, with flowers at her feet. Her arms are bent outward, one arm lower with the apron's end draped over it is filled with flowers, while other hand holds a bouquet closer to her chest. The figural group is on a decorated scroll base painted in burgundy.
Paperweight with a monkey playing with a bee that is perched on a rose, on a rectangular base.
Cupid Sets Stone on Fire, Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron