Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda (Daughter of George III)

Wedgwood

About 1795

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Covered urn of white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the lower body with acanthus leaf motifs, the main body divided into four reserves with decorative lattice work in between, each reserve with an applied white classical vignette, including Psyche bound by Cupids, Aurora in her Chariot, Cupid as Oracle, and Muses watering Pegasus, with a band of ivy leaves and ribbon just below the shoulder and with acanthus leaves around the neck and on the cover, with drop finial.
Small white, soft-paste porcelain tea bowl of blanc de chine type with molded prunus decoration on the exterior.
Portrait bust in black basalt of the Roman poet Seneca on round socle, the poet in classical drapery.
Oval plaque of solid white jasper with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration with the scene of Cupid with the Infant Mercury, featuring on the left a chariot pulled by a pair of lions with the figure of the infant Mercury behind it and Cupid riding one of the lions, the chariot is filled with a large vase and staff, on the right is a second chariot pulled by a pair of griffins, this chariot is filled with a vase, an altar and a lyre.