Drum Pedestal

Wedgwood

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Large, heavy, footed compote of black basalt from the range of Pomona Ware designed by Paul Follot and modeled by Bert Bentley at Etruria, the wide foot with a band of beading around the edge, the thick stem fluted and with a row of stylized leaves around the top where it meets the bowl, the deep, round bowl has a thick lip and is decorated with six large, hand-applied, molded apples set among the leaves and twigs of an apple tree.
Tall, heavy vase of black basalt with long narrow cylindrical foot with impressed geometric motifs around the middle created by the roulette wheel, the upper body bowl shaped with a wide indented band around the middle and narrower opening at top, the interior covered with a red-maroon colored glaze.
Obverse: Five protesting princes. Reverse: Five protesting princes in the middle a "Bürgermeister" as representative of the fourteen, also protesting, cities, holding hands over an open Bible.
Documentary encaustic-decorated, two-handled, covered vase of black basalt, after the antique kantharos form, shield-shaped with upright strap handles, painted in red with on one side a bearded Jupiter seated with thyrsus (a staff or spear tipped with an ornament like a pine cone) and Ganymede standing with a komast (drinking) cup in the Greek red-figure style, the other side decorated with an elaborate foliate scroll cartouche and inscribed inside “W. M. Moseley 1788”, the flat cover with a broad cylindrical finial decorated with a border of acanthus leaves and geometric patterned bands.