Oval, self-framed black basalt medallion with the portrait of the goddess Minerva, probably after Montfaucon, in full armor in profile right, below her the name MINERVA, the frame gilded with an inner border of reeds bound by a series of crossed straps, the outer frame of fluted cavetto moulding

Minerva

Wedgwood, After a model by John Flaxman, Jr.

About 1780

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