Head of Man

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley period

About 1775

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A solid light blue jasper candlestick on square plinth with truncated corners, with a white jasper cherub figure supported by a tree trunk covered with creeping grape vines, holding a basket of fruit and representing the autumn season, the candle nozzle is fashioned to look like icicles.
Porcelain Commedia dell'arte figural group of a Harlequin wearing a lilac conical hat, a white ruff over a gilt-edged jacket half patterned with yellow, lilac and black diamonds and the other half blue and patterned with playing cards, with large gold buttons, with white trousers and lilac shoes with big yellow bows, in his left hand he holds cherries, he kneels behind his female companion Columbine, who wears a lilac and yellow bodice and white skirt decorated with bright "indianische Blumen", seated with a basket of cherries on her lap, her right hand by a colorful green parrot perched on a gilt-edged, white tripod table, her left hand and gaze raised toward a second parrot perched on a leafy branch of the tree behind them, the mound base applied with colorful flowers and green leaves.
Oval tri-color jasper (lilac, dark blue, and white) cameo with white relief sacrificial scene
White jasper dish or stand with light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, with acanthus and stiff leaf motifs around the inner edge.