Potpourri Jar with Cover

Wedgwood

About 1885

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Covered urn of solid white jasper with crimson jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, of calyx krater shape, on round foot decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves, the stem and lower body with acanthus leaves and lotus motifs, with two elongated loop handles with white leafy motifs, the main body decorated with applied classical figures, including a sacrifice, a woman with a deer and a woman with a bird, the overlapping lip with a pattern of acanthus leaves, the conforming cover with acanthus leaf and lotus motifs and teardrop finial.
Bust in profile left. This may be modeled after a design for the Luther Monument in Wittenberg.
Bust in profile left in brass frame.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is a mixture of multiple colors throughout - light and dark brown, dark green, black, and the color of the unglazed stoneware. The dark glaze begins near the middle of the vase, continuing downward to the bottom of the thistle form and pooling in drips and continuing towards the bottom of the vase. The vase's exterior features thin lines impressed horizontally into the form. The lines are irregularly spaced throughout the vase, occuring mostly at the top of the vase, on the bottom half of the thistle form, and the bottom of the cylindrical base. The vase's lip is mostly dark brown and unglazed stoneware. The vase's interior is unglazed stoneware with thin, raised lines circling the form that correspond in placement with the impressed lines on the exterior.