Jug

Wedgwood

1820-1830

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Cupid Riding a Lion, Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron
One of a pair of silver sauceboats of stocky, oval shape with scalloped rim and extended lip, resting on four squat rippled legs with feet comprised of small scrolls that are splayed like toes, with restrained rippled scroll handle, on one side of the main body the engraved crest of the Earl of Derby impaled with the motto below SANS CHANGER, on the other the badge of the Earl of Derby.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of four Dancing Hours figures on the left side, all on a thin ground, on the right a laurel leaf and berry wreath with fruits suspended on a ribbon in center.
Ladies’ covered paint box of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with two white paint palettes (not original) and a solid blue jasper holder with twelve small white paint cups (also not original).