Cup

Designed by Eric Owen, Wedgwood

About 1965

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Queen of France married in 1774 to Louis XVI. Portrait taken from an original medallion by Jean Baptiste Nini
Oval medallion of light blue jasper with white jasper relief depicting the "Bourbonnais Shepherd," a man sitting on a rock under a tree with a dog.
Miniature commemorative spill vase of vase form of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on one side the portrait bust of Josiah Wedgwood with the name JOSIAH WEDGWOOD and dates 1730-1795 in banners below, on the other the coat of arms of the Wedgwood baronetcy Gules four Mullets in Cross and a Canton Argent and on a Ducal Coronet a Lion passant Argent with the motto "Obstantia Discindo" (I split asunder obstacles) in a banner below.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid black 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 relief has been selectively shaded using a black jasper slip to give the impression of enhanced translucency.