Cupid with a Butterfly

Wedgwood

About 1795

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Oval cameo of white Jasper ware with blue dip and appled white bas-relief in imitation of a carved classical cameo. Two women standing slightly overlapped in classical robes, part of an existing larger composition of the three Graces. One stands against a two-legged bench or seat
Oval blue jasper Nicolo intaglio with black profile of Caesar's head, daggers, and a liberty cap, "EID MAR" (Ides of March)
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
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Theophrastus facing left, set in brass mount