Pair of Candlesticks, Pomona and Ceres

Design attributed to John Flaxman, Jr., Wedgwood

About 1810

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Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of a Vestal, or a Priestess of the Goddess Vesta.
Small creamware dish of lobed shape with three stout conical feet on the underside, with an elaborate molded, scrolled handle highlighted in deep cobalt blue, the shell edge highlighted in same blue and gold.
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.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is a mixture of multiple colors throughout - light and dark brown, dark green, black, and the color of the unglazed stoneware. The dark glaze begins near the middle of the vase, continuing downward to the bottom of the thistle form and pooling in drips and continuing towards the bottom of the vase. The vase's exterior features thin lines impressed horizontally into the form. The lines are irregularly spaced throughout the vase, occuring mostly at the top of the vase, on the bottom half of the thistle form, and the bottom of the cylindrical base. The vase's lip is mostly dark brown and unglazed stoneware. The vase's interior is unglazed stoneware with thin, raised lines circling the form that correspond in placement with the impressed lines on the exterior.