Coverlet

Ireland

About 1820

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Oval blue jasper plaque with white relief scene depicting a Music lesson, a companion piece to the Infact Academy. Modelled by Hackwood c.1785
Large, deep polychrome majolica charger, or plate, in the istoriato style, in the middle with a scene in shades of blue, orange, green, and brown of Julius Caesar in Roman garb with cloak surrounded by Roman townspeople distributing and receiving wine and food within a courtyard defined by architectural structures and columns, probably based on a drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-66), the border decorated with grotesques on a whitened ground incorporating fantastic birds, part-human creatures, scrolls, stylized urns, and medallions imitating engraved gems, at the top the coat-of-arms of the Petrocchini family of Montelparo, Italy, the outer edge decorated in a modified egg-and-dart pattern; the reverse with a series of bright yellow bands and painted with the inscription SON FATTI DONI AL POPVLO ROMAO
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with glazed interior
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures and a tree on the right side, all on a thin ground.