Marcus Scaevola

Wedgwood

About 1790

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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.
Half figure seated right, the head front.
Egg-shaped tri-color jasper (dark blue, green, and white) perfume bottle with white relief figures on green panels on each side, neck broken and cap missing
A heavy and wide, bucket-shaped vase that tapers into a cylinder to form the vase's base. The vase is glazed an olive green/khaki color, then covered irregularly with a light green glaze. On the bucket-shaped part of the vase is a blue-black drip glaze tinged with green that extends to the bottom of the form. The lip of the vase extends out slightly and is light green, then turning into mustard yellow. The interior of the vase is an irregular brown with thin light and dark lines around the form. There is some dark, irregular glaze at the base of the vase's interior.