“Sacred to Neptune” Pitcher

John Flaxman, Jr., Wedgwood

About 1790

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Small, rectangular plaque of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip on the front and back, with white relief scene on the front of "The Discovery of Achilles" whereby Menelaus and Diomedes discover Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes.
Green and white
Pair of teardrop-shaped earrings of dark blue jasper with white jasper bas relief, each earring suspended on a short chain set with two jargoons (faux stones) and hanging from a round dark-blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief in a pinwheel pattern and with a jargoon in the center, with gold screw back, the drops each with stiff leaf pattern above and beaded swags below, in the middle of each a series of classical figures comprised of .1) "Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion"; "Terpsichore"; "Hercules supporting the world"; and "Diana with stag"; and .2) "Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion"; "classical male figure"; "Hercules supporting the world"; and "classical male and female figures."
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Augustus (63 BC-14 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, self frame, pierced to hang.