Double Sided Medallion “Classical Figures”

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Plate, Shell edge shape, flowers in well
Small, tubular lamp column of solid light blue jasper with white relief decoration, at top and bottom a band of oak leaves and acorns, on one side the figure of a woman holding a bird aloft in her left hand and a wreath in her right, adapted from the tablet "Sacrifice to Cupid," and on the other side the figure of a woman holding a small incense burner on a string, adapted from the tablet "Sacrifice to Cupid" and "Sacrifice to Ceres."
Small patch box, rectangular in shape and with white ground, painted on all four sides with colorful scenes of figures in interiors, the lid painted with an amorous couple before a window, the underside with a small square reserve in which is painted a female figure seated in front of a window.
Shallow, wide bowl of black stoneware covered inside and out with a rough volcanic glaze that is pink and white in the well against the dark ground.