Mantel or Chimneypiece Tablet, Vitruvian Scroll

Wedgwood

1775-1800

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Obverse: General Napoleon on horseback crossing the Alps at the St. Bernhard Pass on May 14, 1800, prior to the battle of Marengo.
A Bow porcelain female figure standing on a painted scrolled base. She stands holding a bouquet of flowers in her right hand bent at the elbow towards her body. The other hand also holding flowers in resting on a short vase shaped vessel, possibly an incense burner that sits on a marbled pedestal covered with flowers and leaves from the front. Her dress is painted in various colored flowers with a blue and rose colored sash wrapped around her waist and back. The hair has green and burgundy colored ribbons painted.
In the center the coat-of-arms of the City of Freiberg with the three spires, the gates to the city, and the lion.
Bust front.