Oval basalt plaque with Hercules and the Erymanthean boar

Hercules and the Erymanthean Boar

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Tapered, shoulder vase, Keith Murray shape 3805, of creamware covered in a champagne slip-glaze. The body has five, engine-turned, parallel lines. A series of stepped-rings encircle the shoulder, near the mouth. The mouth opens 3 ½ inches in diameter.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Titus (39-81 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name TITUS is impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Small vinaigrette in the form of a fish of a bass type with gray-green scales and red fins, the middle opens up to reveal a small container covered with a pierced lid of gilt silver, with additional gilt silver mounts and eye attached to the nose for hanging.
Round blue jasper plaque with white relief of Apollo holding Lyre and oak leaf and acorn border, in pencil on back "BRITISH FILM ACADEMY "OSCAR"/WHEN PRESENTED IS INSCRIBED IN GOLD/"BRITISH FILM ACADEMY AWARD" + YEAR". These plaques were presented between 1953 and 1968