Powder Box

Designed by Norman Wilson, Painted by Millicent Taplin, Wedgwood

1953/55

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Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Tall, hard-paste porcelain vase of campana shape, the upper body with white biscuit bas-relief figures against a glazed green ground, the figures include King Friedrich Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827) dressed as a Roman emperor; he is flanked by the figures of Justice on his right, and Minerva on his left; on the opposite side of the vase is the figure of a Roman vestal, representing the state of Saxony, pouring oil on sacrificial flames on an altar inscribed with the dates of the king's reign; at her feet lies an overflowing cornucopia as well as war trophies and emblems of the seven liberal arts; the bulbous lower body heavily gilt with two handles and a series of applied acanthus leaves of white biscuit porcelain, the foot with central decorative element of green glazed porcelain with small, applied, white biscuit leaves, the lower splayed foot a series of channels
Small snuff bottle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration with on one side the arms of the City of Ipswich (UK) and the name IPSWICH in a banner below, on either side a goat's head mask.
Oval black basalt intaglio, two-sided with profile portraits of bearded men on each side