George III and Queen Charlotte

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1779

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Buff-colored, sculptural teapot of glazed porcelain with a spout that looks like a thumb and a cover that features an elephant head atop a seated human body, the teapot body with on one side an elephant in relief within a reserve highlighted in gold, the body also decorated with a transfer-printed frieze under the spout and skeleton figures and other motifs around it, with a banner under the spout that reads TUSKER.
Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Calliope, who presided over eloquence and heroic poetry, and often holds a tablet or roll of paper and stylus, standing in full figure next to a pedestal.
Square black jasper plaque with white relief of Erato with Lyre, lab trial
Octagonal lustre bowl with bronze exterior and mottled pearlized blue interior, fruit designs. Four of the eight fields on the outside of the bowl are decorated with larger fruit arrangements. a) grapes (purple glaze), a pear (orange/yellow glaze), leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) grapes (purple glaze), two peaches (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) grapes (purple glaze), an apricot (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) grapes (purple glaze), three mirabelles (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. These designs are alternated with individual fruit designs. a) a strawberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) a blackberry (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) an apricot (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. A rope-like pattern decorates the upper rim of the outside of the bowl. The inside has a mother-of-pearl glaze with a geometric, gilded pattern along the upper rim of the bowl with a red glaze. In the inside there are six individual fruits equally distributed throughout the bowl, halfway up the side. a) a strawberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) a raspberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. e) an apricot (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. f) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with three large strawberries (orange/yellow/red glaze), leaves (green glaze), and two strawberry blossoms (one green, one blue glaze), gilding used to outline the design.