Hercules and Club

Wedgwood, Frame by Matthew Boulton

About 1778

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Small, deep bowl of grayish stoneware, with small foot, the body covered in a slightly mottled, gray-green glaze with a lattice or web-like design on the exterior, the thin glaze on the rim exposes the clay beneath.
An oval dish with a Vitruvian scroll border; in the center is a square block mounted on a foot. A similar ashtray appears in the Musterbuch of the Mägdesprung foundry.
The figure of a mustached Doctor Boloardo standing on a small white base, his knees bent and his right leg thrust forward, his hands at waist, wearing red knee breeches, white stockings and black shoes, his puce-colored coat with gilt buttons and details, a large white ruffled collar rests upon his gray cloak with yellow lining, he wears a large black hat over a blue skullcap
Wedgwood floral brooch with four bone china flowers on green leaves with a metal mount.