Louis XVI of France

Wedgwood

About 1780

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Elaborate Louis XVI-style center table veneered in lemon tree wood and rosewood, with reeded, tapering legs, ornamented with light blue jasper plaques with white relief depicting cupids at play and mercury-gilded bronze mounts, with interlaced stretchers with center urn topped with berry finial, and tooled leather surface
Green jasperware inkwell with white relief design of a group with cage and one other group of figures along with the typical wedgwood trees and flowers
Oval dark blue jaser medallion with white relief portrait profile of Josef Franz Haydn (1732-1809) , set in plated silver frame surrounded with rhinestones. Haydn was a Austrian composer, he became a chorister in Vienna at the age of eight, and learned to play the pianoforte and the violin. When his voice broke he earned a scanty livelihood by playing the violin, and he had produced his first opera by the age of twenty. In 1758 he came to the notice of Prince Anton Esterhazy, and in the year following produced his first symphony. By this time he had achieved considerable popularity in Vienna, and Esterhazy made hi Vice-Kapellminster of the Court Orchestra in 1760. his success continued through Esterhazy's life and continued on after his death.
Large creamware mug decorated with nine rectangular panels, each either red or blue and each with a letter in silhouette that together spell out the words "A SOUVENIR", superimposed on each of the letters is a line-drawn vignette of London landmarks, including the Tower Bridge; Westminster Abbey; the Post Office Tower; the Tower; Trafalgar Square; St. James Park; Big Ben; Buckingham Palace; and St. Paul's, the upper part of the mug, both inside and out, decorated with sets of three hand-drawn parallel lines on a slant.