Covered Tea Canister

England

About 1760

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three draped Muses on the left, Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, leaning on a column, Polymnia, Muse of Sacred Poetry, with a book in her raised hand, and Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry, with two horns, all on a thin ground, on the right the scene of Cupid in a Chariot Drawn by Lions, likewise on a thin ground.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Half figure seated right, the head front.
Large, oblong vase of heavy, beige glazed stoneware, the sides are rounded and the opening at the top is narrow, each end of the vase is decorated in an abstract, semi-geometric pattern in shades of gray, white, rust, black, and beige, the central body is decorated on each side with a broad stripe of mottled, almost metallic, gray glaze.