Frame for Wedgwood

  • Titles Frame for Wedgwood (Descriptive)
  • Medium walnut
  • Dimensions frame: 9 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (24.8 × 40 × 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Beeson, 1977.68
  • Work Type frame
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Box with painting of a couple embracing, man holds a sword.
Miniature saucer, or dish, of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, around the inner rim a series of tiny relief scenes including Cupid riding a lion; a lion and a calf; Venus and Cupid; a flying Cupid with bow and arrow; and Cupid riding a sea monster.
Clasp with pierced wave-and-bead motif, in the middle the portrait head of Anton, King of Saxony (1755-1836; 1827-30) in profile left on steel plate.
Oval lilac jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of George III (1738-1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire until his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors, he was born in Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover. Modelled with slight alterations from a wax portrait by Isaac Gosset in about 1775.