Sacrifice to Eros

Wedgwood

About 1789

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Small white, soft-paste porcelain tea bowl of blanc de chine type with molded prunus decoration on the exterior.
Cup and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the cup with a series of cupids at play with dogs and birds and insects, the handle with molded acanthus leaf motifs and shell terminal, the lower part of the cup and the saucer engine turned with light green and white stripes, the saucer with applied overlapping acanthus and stiff leaf motifs around the edge, the interior of the cup is lapidary polished.
Oval pie dish of buff-colored caneware, molded to resemble a decorated raised pie crust, the main body decorated with an applied fruiting grape leaf vine, with a narrow rolled band at the top and bottom edges, the cover with vegetal motifs and a central cauliflower finial that provides a handle for the cover, with vertical mold marks on both sides, the interior is glazed.
Vase of solid light blue and white jasper in the form of three white ruined fluted columns, the center one slightly taller, resting on a light blue rectangular pedestal base with in the center of either side a reserve with a scene of classical figures in relief and on either side of this central reserve an additional reserve with an illegible text, the entire vase modeled to give the impression that it has been recently excavated, is weathered and has become ruined over time with cracks and damage and destroyed sections and with scattered bits of lichen.