Small hollow drum made of white jasper with dark blue and lilac jasper dip tricolor and white relief decoration round with a hole at either end the body with a border of oak leaves against a lilac ground at the bottom and a border of intersecting circles against a lilac ground at the top in the middle a series of four reserves within which are small relief scenes including Cupid as Oracle Coriolanus Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome Endymion on Latmos and Hebe giving sustenance to the eagle between small dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs

Lamp or Candelabrum Drum

Wedgwood

1790-1810

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