Neptune Riding the Sea

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1780

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Soft-paste porcelain figure of a woman selling flowers, emblematic of spring, standing in full figure on a rococo base highlighted in gold and green, to her left a flowering branch that offers the figure support, around her waist a white apron filled with bunches of flowers, her left arm encircles the flowering branch, wearing a flowered and striped skirt with purple bustle and puce bodice tied together with gold string over a white blouse, her hat is red and blue.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Tall covered urn of black basalt on round foot, the edge with a band of acanthus leaf motifs, the stem with a pattern of stiff leaf elements and with a beaded waist, the lower body with gadrooning and the main body with a scene of Bacchanalian Boys in relief after Lady Diana Beauclerk, including on one side a satyr putti sitting on rocks eating grapes, another sitting under a tree holding a staff, one putti sitting under a tree and dozing and one kneeling with a basket of bunches of grapes, on the other side two putti with a staff, two carrying a third in their arms, and one seated on a rock with pan pipes, trees divide the two sides, above the main body is a band of feathery floral motifs and at the shoulder a band of masks, two of which are Bacchus, and symbols of the arts and sciences, the shoulder with stylized leafy fronds and floral drops, with beading around the neck and lip, stiff leaf motifs on the neck, and two intricate lion, or leopard, handles, the corresponding cover with leafy fronds and a finial in the form of a seated, draped putti with an instrument.
Statuette