Medallion “Marriage of Cupid and Psyche”

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration featuring two oval paterae with sunflowers and beading supporting a floral festoon with two trailing ends containing roses and other flowers.
Bust in profile left. This may be modeled after a design for the Luther Monument in Wittenberg.
Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the cup cylindrical in shape with a pattern of acanthus leaves within small semi-oval reserves punctuated by anthemion motifs, below the lip a band of guilloche, with molded loop handle, the interior is lapidary polished, the saucer with the same pattern around the rim and a band of acanthus leaves around the well.
Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with applied green, lilac and white jasper relief decoration, the cup of cylindrical shape with a band of green acanthus leaves around the bottom, the main body with garlands of green ivy leaves with lilac berries and small medallions suspended from the joinings of the garlands, each lilac medallion with a small white flying cupid in relief, with a leafy vine running around the top of the cup below the lip, with leaf-molded handle, the saucer with like garlands around the rim and a band of acanthus leaves around the inner well.