Hair Comb

Wedgwood

20th century (medallions possibly older)

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Large, heavy oval portrait medallion of light blue jasper with blue jasper dip and white relief, with the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, in classical drapery facing almost front, behind him in white relief Newton's comet of 1680, the first comet discovered by telescope.
Bust front, the head slightly right.
Fitzhugh pattern with Nanking border
Large solid light blue jasper monteith with applied white jasper relief decoration with a band of guilloche around the foot and icicles around the lower body, the main body with a frieze of fruiting grapevines held by small paterae, the neck with leafy lotus motifs, the upper edge wavy to accommodate wine glass stems and decorated with a band of guilloche, with two molded handles with dash and dot around the edge, below the handles are applied white jasper leaf ornaments.