Dinner Plate

Wedgwood

1939

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Small stoneware bowl with low foot and tall sides, Raku fired, the body glazed a bright reddish-orange and with two narrow cream-colored bands around the middle, the glaze with irregularities and dark scorch marks that cause the orange glaze of the lower body to be mostly obscured.
Teapot and associated stand of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the teapot raised on round foot decorated with bound reeds, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaf motifs and the main body with on one side the image of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other Sportive Love, or the figure of a young maiden with a cupid balanced on her toe, both against a stippled ground, a band of guilloche runs around the pot at the shoulder, with laurel leaf and berry-molded spout and double, leaf-molded conjoined handle, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and a large draped cherub as finial, the stand with overlapping acanthus and anthemion motifs.
Large round, self-framed wall plaque, or roundel, of black basalt with the image of a Centaur teaching Achilles the kithara in relief against a red encaustic ground, framed by a reeded border with criss-cross ribbons and fluted cavetts.
Group of three figures.