Ganymedes

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Irregularly shaped, the figure in profile right holding a shield in right hand and sword in left.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of King William III facing left, broken and repaired with large piece missing at top
Egg Cups, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Napoleon (1769-1821) facing left wearing a laurel wreath. Napoleon was the French Emperor reigning between (1804-1814) before taking control of Italy between 1805 and 1814.He was banished to Saint Helena where he died of cancer of the stomach with his body being returned tio Paris in 1840, 19 years after his death to be placed in the crypt of the Invalides.