Pair of Vases

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley period

1769-1780

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Delicate covered tureen of white soft-paste porcelain, the body resting on four scrolled feet and with two scrolled handles, with molded decoration in the 'damask'd' pattern with on each side a vertical reserve decorated with painted floral bouquets in shades of pink, purple, yellow and green enamel, the domed cover similarly decorated with molded decoration and floral bouquets, and surmounted by the modeled figure of a recumbent stag painted brown and black resting on a rocky base that is highlighted with floral springs and leaves
Oval portrait medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration with the bust of Benjamin Franklin in profile left.
Small, delicate silver basket on raised and pierced oval foot, the edges of the oval basket scalloped and below the rim engraved with wavy, dotted lines, below that a band of piercing in a pattern of scrolling foliage and a central roundel with floral motifs between vertical elements that mirror the pattern on the foot, the well likewise engraved with scroll and dot motifs, with reeded swing handle.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Domitian (51-96 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name DOMITIAN impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.