Grist Milling from the “New England Industries” Series

Designed by Clare Leighton, Wedgwood

1952

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Bust almost front, the head in profile right.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid white jasper with dark blue dip and flat white relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a draped nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a draped nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask.
Small, shell-shaped plate with mustard colored edge, in the center the scene of a man and a woman sitting under a tree in a landscape near a water’s edge and surrounded by lush flora. The woman is seated with her knees up wearing a white blouse with blue sash and a red skirt, she plays a recorder while the man leans against her legs, he wears a white tunic and green vest; with blue cloud-like smudges in the sky.
Set of four, tall, sterling silver candlesticks architectural in form and neo-Gothic/neoclassical in style, each with a large, square base decorated with a diaper pattern within which are stylized flowers raised against a stippled ground, the corners are covered with upwardly scrolling acanthus leaves; from the base the stick rests on a fluted foot upon which sits a square pedestal from which extends the actual stick, which is composed of two slender columns at each edge with acanthus leaves at top, all bound by three sets of three bands each; between the columns are quatrefoils; the finial is in the form of a footed urn, the foot with four individual trefoils between acanthus leaves, the urn is also decorated with trefoils and stylized acanthus leaves, and holds a square, removable bobeche with pierced corners and scrollwork; on three of the four bobeches is an engraved crest: an eagle with outstretched wings atop a crown set with feathers.