Cupid Stringing His Bow

Wedgwood

18th century

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Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Round plaque of solid light blue jasper with border of laurel leaves and berries in white relief.
Creamware pitcher with a pearl glaze molded in high relief with a fluted loop handle with leafy terminals highlighted in green and blue and a leafy spout highlighted in blue, with a raised blue band at the shoulder and below it against a stippled ground the portraits of three men, on one side a man clutching a jar within a reserve outlined in green, above him a banner that reads SPENDTHRIFT supported by a portrait in profile left, under the spout the portrait of William Shakespeare with brown hair and wearing a blue cloak, with a two-part banner that reads SHAKESPEAR / THE POET, likewise supported by two portraits in profile left, on the other side in a reserve similar to the first, a man with a bag of coins and a banner above that reads THE MISER along with a portrait in profile left.
Oval metal medallion with relief of male figure with lyre