Eye Bath

Wedgwood

1865

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Sauce bowl of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, with two loop handles likewise with applied decoration.
Spade-shaped blue jasper plaque with white relief putto representing Summer
Molded figure of a shepherd standing in full figure on a small square base highlighted with a brown band and a mounded bit of grass with a brown stump for support, the figure wears yellow britches and a striped vest with pink-brown coat and black hat, over his right shoulder he carries a yellowish sheep with hobbled feet.
Saucer of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration around the inner rim in a pattern of leafy vines, part of a service made for Capern's bird seed merchants in Bristol.