Pastille Burner

Wedgwood

1880-1900

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Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in blue jasper dip with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage; the white relief has been selectively shaded - somewhat heavy-handed and unevenly - using a blue jasper slip to give the impression of enhanced translucency.
Large, heavy, footed compote of black basalt from the range of Pomona Ware designed by Paul Follot and modeled by Bert Bentley at Etruria, the wide foot with a band of beading around the edge, the thick stem fluted and with a row of stylized leaves around the top where it meets the bowl, the deep, round bowl has a thick lip and is decorated with six large, hand-applied, molded apples set among the leaves and twigs of an apple tree.
Venus Victrix, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a Wedgwood model attributed to William Hackwood, cast iron
Oval buckle comprised of a solid light blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Psyche – a classically draped, floating female figure with butterfly wings holding a draped cloth – set into a pierced and beaded cut steel mount.