Kangaroo

John Skeaping, Wedgwood

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Plain cream-colored stoneware footed mortar and a pestle of the same material with a rounded wood handle.
This teardrop-shaped custard cup or dessert pot is made from a fine sheet of moulded yellow jasper which has been decorated with a crenellated edge and the ornamentation of a fine white jasper lattice or trellis design. It was made between 1790 and 1800.
Small creamware jelly mold with scalloped rim and on a thick round foot, the interior formed in a shell motif.
Miniature round box or container with cover of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with three small relief scenes including The Muses Watering Pegasus, Bellerophon Watering Pegasus, and Ulysses Staying the Chariot of Victory, the cover with a band of lotus leaves around the edge and on top a pattern of acanthus leaves with a floral motif in the center.