Inkwell with Insert

Wedgwood

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Tall, narrow candlestick in the 16th century Renaissance style of colorful Majolica glazed in bright shades of green, blue, yellow, brown and white, of columnar form with round foot decorated with stylized acanthus leaves in low relief, the angular stem pierced with figures and scrolling floral elements below four female busts that support the leafy bobeche, the nozzle in the shape of an urn.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of John Dryden (1631-1700) facing right. John Dryden was born in Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire the eldest of fourteen children. In 1650 Dryden went to Trinity College, Cambridge.where he studied the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. He graduated in 1654 with his BA, graduating top of the list for Trinity that year. Dryden returned to London during the Protectorate, where he obtained work with Cromwell's secretary of state, John Thurloe. This later helped him publish his first poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display.
Oval tri-color jasper (green, black, and white) with white relief scene with man and woman decorated by Bert Bentley
Oblong, with jagged edges.