Punch Pot with Cover

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Small silver, modified helmet-shaped creamer on splayed, round, gadrooned and beaded foot, the main body decorated with a punched floral design between deep, slightly curved lines, with scrolled handle and long beak-like spout, the rim decorated with bold punch marks, in a reserve under the spout the initials WMA.
Cast-iron hair pin comprised of a central rod with filigree balls on each end, from which hang small filigree tassels.
Solid white jasper covered vase with light green jasper dip and applied white and lilac jasper relief decoration, resting on a small square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the vase foot with a band of overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the lower body with applied white stiff leaf motifs, the main body with a heavy floral swag on either side with a lilac and white medallion above that features on one side the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche and on the other the Sacrifice to Hymen, with a band of ribbon and vine below the flat shoulder, with two ram's head masks, one on either side, whose horns curve around to form the handle, the short neck with a white band around the middle and crossed ribbons around the lip, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and ball finial.
Solid light blue jasper rum kettle of bulbous shape with applied white jasper relief decoration in the form of the Dancing Hours below a band of floral garlands and paterae, the lower body engine turned, with an indented, leaf-molded bail handle and elongated spout with decorative acanthus leaves below it; the cover (a marriage) of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and a band of white jasper guilloche and stiff leaf motifs, with white jasper cupid finial.