Guéridon

François Linke, Wedgwood

About 1910

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Solid light blue jasper tablet with applied white jasper relief decoration illustrating the education of Bacchus featuring from left the figure of the boy Bacchus standing on a rock surrounded by classically draped nymphs and satyrs; a group of two satyrs, one wearing an animal fur and holding a bowl, another seated on a rock with his arm twisted around his back while Silenus beats him; and a seated woman unwrapping the infant god from a cloth with a female figure behind her with cymbals and another pouring water into an urn in front of her with three additional nymphs on the right, all classically draped and reaching toward the infant.
Deep dish of red earthenware (redware) with a brownish-orange lead-based glaze, the interior with a pattern of individual, incised scrolls and squiggly lines around the border, in the middle a large impressed leaf motif surrounded by four other impressed leaves; below the center leaf the date "1764" and above the initials "B C."
Solid light blue jasper teapot with white jasper relief decoration, cylindrical in shape, the lower body with elongated and stylized acanthus leaf motifs, the upper body with a band of guilloche below the angular shoulder, the short neck with a band of laurel leaves and berries, with ribbed and leaf-molded spout and handle, the cover (likely a marriage) with simple acanthus leaf motifs and beading, with ball finial.
Oval bronze plaque depicting the Marriage supper of Perseus and Andromeda