Neptune Riding a Porpoise

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1790

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One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Africa: the figure of a male child with black skin wearing a green and purple wrap, a bright red coral necklace and an elephant headdress, over his right shoulder is a cornucopia filled with sheaves of wheat, which he supports on his left hip, his right hand grasps a scorpion, symbolic of the mystery and danger of this little known continent, at his feet is a snarling lion, the base decorated with flowers.
Obverse: Bust of Rudolph Brandes (1795-1832) front.
Simple, plain, large silver tankard of waisted, baluster-shape, on round, stepped foot, with double C-scroll handle that terminates in a heart-shaped motif, with hinged, domed lid, at the hinge a decorative, applied, strap element, with open scroll thumb piece.
Octagonal blue jasper intaglio or cypher