Potpourri Vase with Cover and Insert

Wedgwood

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Rectangular black basalt intaglio with figure Erato
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Gladstone (1809-1898), self-framed. He was a British Liberal and earlier conservative politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868–74, 1880–85, February–July 1886 and 1892–94), more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old.
Tall lamp in two parts of cameo glass in the Art Nouveau style, the slender vase-shaped base on a round foot supports a two-tiered, domed shade, the lamp decorated in shades of yellow, orange, brown, and white with a winter landscape scene - the foot highlighted in white to resemble snow, the stem decorated with the trunks of brown, barren trees which continue to the shade, displaying their leafless branches against a somber orange sky, the branches are picked out in white to represent fallen snow; the shade is held in place by a pronged "clip" attached to the base.
Figural group in the form of a Chinese-style pavillion, or pagoda, behind two figures in Chinese garb, one playing the flute, the other a triangle, on naturalistic base covered with grass, flowers and rocks, highlighted in gold.