Medallion “Neptune Riding the Sea”

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Round covered sugar bowl modeled to look like a cauliflower, the bowl with overlapping leaves and stem glazed green, the domed cover resembling the white florets, with cauliflower finial (the cover is not original to the bowl).
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of two Dancing Hours figures, one holding a laurel wreath and one holding a grapevine garland, next to the Muse Urania seated on stump with a globe and a tree on the right, all on a thin ground that ends before the right edge of tablet.
Teapot, Wedgwood, stoneware (rosso antico ware)
Creamware hot water kettle on stand, the kettle plain and bulbous with double rope, twisted bail handle that terminates on either side in floral heads, the base of the spout is supported by a female head, with flat cover with mushroom finial, the conforming stand of circular form and supported by three masked feet, the body of the stand is embellished with decorative piercing, with two rope twisted handles and three lugs which prevent the kettle from sliding.