Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Buten

Wedgwood

1972

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Oval metal medallion with relief of male figure with lyre
Figure of the poet John Milton standing at a podium on a rectangular base in contemporary dress with drapery, holding in his left hand a scroll upon which a text from his "Paradise Lost" in gilt reading, " ....just and righteous. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
Plain creamware fruit basket and stand, oval, the basket with flared sides and a pair of double intertwined cord handles with flower and leaf terminals, the lower exterior part of the basket and the center of the stand are fluted, the sides of the basket and the rim of the stand decorated with a band of pierced openwork pattern and cable borders.
Oval basalt plaque with nine Bacchanalian boys at play in vineyard