Elephant

Modeled by Ernest Light, Wedgwood

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Oval dark blue medallion with white relief scene, depicting the classical subject of a muse and a genius. The robed muse facing right playing a lyre that is mounted on a pedestal. A shield with profile portrait rests at the base, in front of a winged figure playing a trumpet.
Plain cream-colored stoneware mortar and pestle, the pestle with a rounded wood handle.
Half figure seated right, the head front.
Vase of bone china in the shape of the First Day's Vase with bulbous body and small foot resting on a small square plinth, with two upright, elongated handles, the flat cover with baluster finial, the vase in the "Aesthetic style" and elaborately decorated on a white ground with two large inward curling scrolls on all four sides in shades of matte olive green, turquoise, and gold, in between are leafy swags extending from orange and gold rectangular reserves above a stylized acanthus leaf element, the lower body in matte olive green with cross hatching and parallel lines in gold, the shoulder of the vase with gold anthemion motifs against a matte olive green ground, the handles gold and the foot decorated with a band of leafy elements in orange and turquoise, a similar band runs around the side of the cover, the top of the cover and the finial in matte olive green highlighted in gold, the square base matte green on the sides and likewise highlighted in gold.