Saucer

Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1775

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Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.
Elongated oval lilac jasper cameo with white relief woman carrying a bowl for a sacrifice, with polished edges
Small bulb pot of white stoneware covered with an opaque variegated agate glaze in shades of brown, beige, green and yellow, below the lip a band of gilded fret work, the fitted insert cover with two fitments to hold bulbs and two smaller air holes, both the interior of the pot and underside of the cover are glazed black.