Dipping of Achilles

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Three-piece bough-pot garniture of creamware covered with a pearl glaze, each of D-shape with convex fronts and flat backs, each resting on three ball feet, the bodies decorated only on the front with silver resist lustre in a pattern of three arches decorated with typical Leeds-style birds and foliage, with a border of repeating circles above, the covers pierced with both large and small holes, with urn-shaped finials.
A soft-paste porcelain plate with scalloped edge decorated in the Imari style with the "Old Japan Fan" pattern, with underglaze blue and overglaze red and green "fans" highlighted in gold on each of the four sides, and with four blue roundels with gold highlights in between, in the center is a large chrysanthemum motif in gold with a red and green center and blue band around, on the underside of the rim is a pattern of trailing floral vines in blue with red floral motifs.
Molded, creamware tea canister of squarish shape with truncated corners, transfer-printed in black on both sides with a man with sheep in a landscape, the so-called Good Shepherd pattern, and on the other the image of a couple seated at tea in a landscape with a servant boy, the so-called Tea Party pattern, with domed lid decorated with a printed floral garland, with ball finial.
Wedgwood floral bone china brooch with one large white and pink flower on black leaves mounted with a metal pin