Plate

Thérèse Lessore, Wedgwood

About 1920-1924

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Covered teapot of black basalt with red and yellow-white enamel decoration, the body cylindrical with ear-shaped handle and straight spout, around the upper body and on the cover a band of honeysuckle and bell design in red and yellow with a wreath around the spout, the rest of the teapot edged in red, with Sybil or widow finial, the interior glazed and with pierced strainer.
Small teapot of cylindrical shape of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, with ear-shaped, leaf-molded handle and straight spout with applied leaf and berry motifs at the terminal and floral garlands at the tip, around the lower body a band of overlapping acanthus leaves with delicate shading, the main body engine-turned to create checkerboard pattern of alternating white and lilac squares with small applied green jasper quatrefoils in the white squares, below the shoulder a band of leafy vines, the conforming, flat cover with same checkerboard pattern and ball finial with a band of like checkerboard motifs, the interior unglazed and with strainer.
Card Case, mother-of-pearl
Wedgwood bone china and metal flower brooch with 4 white and yellow flowers above blue leaves.