Plate

Chamberlain & Co., Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1790 - 1800

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Black basalt bowl with a turned body, spherical form and tapered base. The exterior is decorated with small bands of stamped designs of repeating ovals or designs resembling twisted rope along the center of the form. The exterior outside of the stamped band features interspersed/alternating plain dimensional bands around the form. The rim of the bowl has a slightly pronounced lip and the bowl's interior is glazed.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures, all on a thin ground.
Tall vase of solid white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, of urn shape, the foot decorated with white acanthus leaf motifs with a small band of ribbon and reed around the lower body, the main body engine-turned to create a blue and white checkerboard pattern with applied green quatrefoils on the white squares and curved bands of laurel leaves running vertically in between, the neck with applied white floral motifs, the overhanging lip with applied daisy motifs.
Oval blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, The subject was originally taken from a Renaissance gem, a sardonyx, then in the Marlborough collection and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Wedgwood produced three distinct versions of the subject two of which show significant variations from the originals. The version closest to the original was probably taken from a sulphur cast of the gem by Tassie who reproduced it in his glass paste, or from a direct study of the Marlborough gem. Wedgwood was acquainted with the fourth Duke. The third version, attributed to Flaxman gives more space to the figures and incorporates detail from the other two versions. Bartolozzi engraved the subject, either from Marlborough gem or Tassie copy. Hackwood worked on the subject in 1774 from a cast supplied by Tassie. Lochee is reputed to have remodelled the subject in 1787 after Tassie. Webber is also said to have worked on it. Flaxman’s version seems to have been comparatively late, about 1787.