Lamp

Designed by Richard Sapper

1985

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Small, shell-shaped plate with mustard colored edge, in the center the scene of a man and a woman sitting under a tree in a landscape near a water’s edge and surrounded by lush flora. The woman is seated with her knees up wearing a white blouse with blue sash and a red skirt, she plays a recorder while the man leans against her legs, he wears a white tunic and green vest; with blue cloud-like smudges in the sky.
Helmet-shaped pitcher of solid lilac jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, on round foot decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge and a band of anthemion motifs, with beading, the lower body with stiff leaf motifs and a band of guilloche, the upper body with figures from the Domestic Employment series below floral garlands and a leafy vine motif around the upper edge, the ear-shaped handle is not original.
Rectangular blue jasper half-plaque with white relief scenes of classical ladies carrying fruit, picking flowers and dancing. 20th century copy?
Octagonal tri-color jasper (sage green, black, and white) cameo with white relief depicting The cupid market and Roman Altar of Eros