Portrait Medallion Of Hugo Grotius

Wedgwood

About 1790

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A tea bowl with matching saucer decorated with the crest, motto, and initials of ML of Loch, Drylaw. Also small flowers in overglaze enamel.
Bust in profile left.
Large, heavy beer pump handle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with on one side the figure of Aesculapius, god of medicine, between two trees and on the other the figure of a draped female, perhaps Hygeia, daughter of Aesculapius and goddess of health.
Bust in profile right.