Medusa

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley period

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Pipe bowl of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration that includes a grape vine around the upper edge and leafy vines and berries around the shank, the lower reservoir is a poor replacement (not Wedgwood), on the main body the relief image from the series Domestic Employment.
Teapot and associated stand of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the teapot raised on round foot decorated with bound reeds, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaf motifs and the main body with on one side the image of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other Sportive Love, or the figure of a young maiden with a cupid balanced on her toe, both against a stippled ground, a band of guilloche runs around the pot at the shoulder, with laurel leaf and berry-molded spout and double, leaf-molded conjoined handle, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and a large draped cherub as finial, the stand with overlapping acanthus and anthemion motifs.
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.
Obverse: Scene from the Last Supper. Reverse: Allegory of Faith holding in her right hand a wreath of stars and in her left a cross.