Cupid With a Butterfly

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley period

About 1776

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Bust in profile right with pearls in hair, diadem, and ermine mantle, whose chain rests on the breast.
Caneware conceit (shape 419 in Shape Book) in the form of an oval, tiered cake with sides made of lady fingers and white stoneware applied relief that simulates icing in a design of beading within arched and interlaced borders, on the top an intertwined laurel wreath with musical trophies inside, with a solid flat base with a single large firing hole.
On the square base, the figure of a female vintner in Rhenish costume with vat and basket.
Bust in profile left.