Incense Burner or Pastille Burner

Wedgwood

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Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, the cup slightly tapered and with a band of acanthus leaves around the lower edge, the main body engine-turned to create a lilac and white checkerboard pattern with applied green quatrefoils on the white squares, a vine of oak leaves runs around the upper edge, the white loop handle with applied green leaf decoration, the conforming saucer with like checkerboard design and vine of oak leaves running around the outer edge.
Large, heavy round plaque of solid light blue jasperware with applied decoration in white jasperware, in high relief the classical scene of Marsyas seated on a large block draped in an animal skin, his arm around the young Olympe, who himself is draped in an animal skin cloak and holds a flute in each hand.
Oval dark blue jasper intaglio with profile portrait of man (King of Prussia, Frederick the Great?)
Small stoneware bowl with low foot and tall sides, Raku fired, the body glazed a bright reddish-orange and with two narrow cream-colored bands around the middle, the glaze with irregularities and dark scorch marks that cause the orange glaze of the lower body to be mostly obscured.