Hermes/Mercury

Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1780

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Cup-shaped bowl. The bowl's exterior is partially glazed and decorated with irregular black bands on top of a brown coat that varies in pigmentation intensity. The lower half of the bowl is glazed more consistently and the lower black bands have a drip-like quality to them and are also more uniform in size and spacing on the form. The upper half of the bowl contains unglazed black bands that are indented in most parts, creating a rough texture. The lip of the bowl is white and unglazed and the bowl's base is glazed and white. The bowl's interior is glazed irregularly and is primarily mustard, with areas of unglazed bone china showing through.
Vase of solid light blue and white jasper in the form of three white ruined fluted columns, the center one slightly taller, resting on a light blue rectangular pedestal base with in the center of either side a reserve with a scene of classical figures in relief and on either side of this central reserve an additional reserve with an illegible text, the entire vase modeled to give the impression that it has been recently excavated, is weathered and has become ruined over time with cracks and damage and destroyed sections and with scattered bits of lichen.
Rare set of four silver candlesticks each on a square plinth with canted corners chased with guilloche on the sides and flowers on the edges, the fluted foot rises to a baluster-shaped stem decorated with palmetto leaves and swags, the upper stem likewise fluted and supporting an urn-shaped socket decorated with similar leaves, with removable fluted nozzle
Pair of tall, footed covered urns in black basalt resting on small square plinths decorated with a repeating geometric pattern on each side, the foot and stems as well as the body above the shoulder and neck are engine turned, the lower body with acanthus leaves that extend upward and the main body with swags of leafy grape vines and bunches of grapes, each has two handles comprised of satyr masks, whose long horns curve up and around and attach to the lip of the urn, with fluted covers with ball finials (not identical).