Nymph and Cymbals

Wedgwood

About 1795

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Two ash and burl ash armchairs, the cabriole front legs end in small scrolls, the arm supports curve inward and likewise end in small scrolls that function as handholds, the arms lathe-turned, terminating in a carved, stylized anthemion motifs where they meet the stile, the back square and each crest rail is set with three green jasper medallions with classical motifs: .1) "Germany and Turkey with amorini grieving for Elisabeth" (from the 1790 series designed for sale in Germany, most of which celebrate the accession and virtues of Leopold II of Austria, who succeeded his brother Joseph II in January 1790. Elisabeth was the favorite niece of Joseph II, who died in February 1790); (probably) "Cybele, goddess of nature and fertiliy"; sacrificial scene (unidentified); and .2) "Fame inscribing a vase to the memory of Elisabeth" (from the German series); "Hercules strangling the Nemean lion" (modeled by William Hackwood ca. 1773); "Germany and Turkey with armorini grieving for Elisabeth" (from the German series); the striped green silk upholstery new
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration featuring the Birth and Dipping of Achilles with a banded column and a small tree on the far left, and Thetis seated on a bed, draped following childbirth, while baby Achilles is being bathed in basin by a woman, on the right Thetis hold Achilles by his right ankle and dips him into the River Styx, a reclining river god and part of a tree are on the far right.
Silver cheese scoop with a shovel-like bowl and long tapered handle that is attached with banding to a heavy, cream-colored bone handle.
Blue glaze, stylized branches - rim back