Dish

David Puxley, Wedgwood

1964-1967

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Assembled miniature dinner service of creamware with shell edges highlighted in deep cobalt blue, comprised of dishes, platters, tureens, sweetmeat dishes, candlesticks, salts, bowls, and a covered box for a total of sixty-one individual components.
Small stick pin comprised of an oval, double-sided, light blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side Jupiter – Jupiter seated with staff and eagle – and on the other Venus and Cupid set in a gold ropework mount on gold pin with a simple gold chain attached.
Small, footed helmet-shaped creamer or cream jug with serpentine sides, the pouring lip broad and elongated, the high loop handle ribbed, the ribbing extends to around the upper edge of the piece, the slender stem of the foot widens to rest on a narrow plinth with ribbed sides, the body is decorated with bright-cut engraving in a pattern of floral garlands surrounding on each side a shield, which is empty save for one, which bears a crest, the upper body with a band of stylized floral elements, the foot with delicate engraved elements and a circle of beading, the upper side of the plinth likewise with a decorative band
Light blue and white jasper; figure of the Muse of lyric poetry and music