Portland Vase copy

Wedgwood

About 1880

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Large, heavy cast-iron covered tureen resting on an oval foot with short, beaded stem, the oval tureen in squat urn form with raised foliage on the bottom and a band of stylized floral motifs around the midsection, with a handle on either side in the form of two connected sea creatures with open mouths and split, scrolling tails, the domed cover with a band of acanthus leaves and pinecone knob.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with relief three-quarter portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tall, colorful majolica ewer on square base of mottled green color, decorated with foliage, the foot in shades of green with foliage, fluting and beading, the yellow body has a green band of acanthus leaves in the middle and a pattern of green acanthus leaves projecting from the foot towards the middle. Atop the body, behind the spout sits Triton, half man, half fish, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, who rides a sea monster, whose head is mounted on the front of the ewer and from which projects sea weed, the handle of the ewer is brown and also made to look like organic material, the inside of the spout is green
Urn-shaped covered vase (cover not original) of white stoneware resting on a small black basalt plinth, the body of the vase covered with an agate, or crystalline, glaze in shades of gray, browns and blues designed to resemble stone, the two ear-shaped handles left white and with traces of gilding, the handles terminate in masks of bearded tritons at the shoulder, the long neck with an extended lip.