Medallion “Minerva”

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Cast-iron paper clamp in the form of a raven's head with long beak (originally bronzed), detailed feathers, and beady glass eyes, in two pieces with a hinge and steel spring that opens the beak to hold paper.
Solid light blue jasper tea canister with applied white jasper relief decoration, bulbous in shape on round foot, the lower body engine turned, on one side of the canister figures from the Domestic Employment series and on the other the scene of Poor Maria featuring a seated young woman and her dog, on the shoulder a band of overlapping acanthus leaves and a band of roulette-made circles at the top of the short neck, the foot with a band of white around it, the cover (likely a marriage) with acanthus leaves and a pinched ball finial.
Vase with a waisted form that flares out and then tapers to the base. The exterior is decorated with plain bands circling the form and a central band made up of horizontal, jagged grooves that decrease in size as they move down the vase. The lip of the vase declines inward toward the center of the vase. The vase's interior is glazed gray-blue with a slight green cast to it. The glaze does not extend completely to the bottom of the vase's interior where there are some lumps and areas with no final color glaze. The vase is heavy.
Cupid and Psyche, Modeled after a cut stone by Charles Brown, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron