Plaque

Minton's pottery and porcelain factory, England

About 1885

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Amalthea and the Infant Zeus, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Round dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of King George III (1738-1820) facing right. He is shown in profile wearing a laurel wreath like a Roman Emperor. He was married to Queen Charlotte after whom Wedgwood's Queen's ware was so named in her honour.
One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Europe: the figure of a female child wearing a white tunic decorated with flowers and cinched together with a yellow ribbon, over her shoulders she wears draped a yellow and red cloak, at her feet are symbols of the arts, sciences, and religion such as paintbrushes and a painter's palette, sheet music, books, and a bishop's miter scattered amongst flowers, in her right had she holds an orb, her left hand raised and outstretched, on her head a crown.
Shallow bowl with light blue mat exterior and aventurine glazed interior