Small oval dish painted with seated man and woman

Dish

Émile Aubert Lessore, Wedgwood

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One of a pair of tall cream colored pearlware vases decorated in enamel colors and partially gilt the gold a dark brownish color the small square base with a row of stylized anthemion motifs highlighted in gold the foot with a border in a modified egg and dart pattern likewise picked out in gold and the lower body of the urn shaped vase with stylized individually molded acanthus leaves outlined in gold the main body of each vase is painted in the round with different delicate and very detailed seascapes that both show a gray and blue cloudy almost stormy sky over a choppy turquoise blue sea each scene includes a variety of ships with billowing sails as well as groups of sailors in small row boats attempting to land ashore through rough foamy waves the sea also includes debris from the ships floating in the water above each central scene is a band of overlapping leaves highlighted in gold and the slender neck includes stylized foliate motifs outlined in gold and a band of beading around the lip on each vase the two tall slender partially gilt scrolled handles has a slithery gold snake coiled around it the snakes heads rest on the shoulder of the vase
Round creamware dinner plate with petal shaped rim decorated in monochrome sepia enamel with a hand painted scene of St Briavels Castle in Gloucestershire England from the east within a border of false gadroons the rim of the plate has a garland of oak leaves and acorns around its perimeter with a central shield shaped cartouche within which a stylized green enameled frog with a small band of sepia enamel on the edge of the rim
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Vase of white stoneware amphora shaped and resting on a plain square base of black basalt the body covered with an opaque variegated glaze in shades of green with two handles of white stoneware in the form of large satyr masks whose horns curve up and attach to the lip of the vase the plain cover with ball finial a facsimile