Scales and Weights

Ceramic by Wedgwood, Scale by Bartlett & Son, Ltd.

1900-1910

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Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid white jasper with dark blue dip and flat white relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a draped nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a draped nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask.
Lilac and white jasperware cover probably for a teapot with glazed inside.
Shallow, wide bowl of black stoneware covered inside and out with a rough volcanic glaze that is pink and white in the well against the dark ground.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, at left part of tree next to a draped male holding a staff next to draped female holding lyre, a male wearing an animal skin playing two pipes, a male figure wearing an animal skin and holding a staff supporting a man with a grape leaf wreath, draped and reaching for a ewer on the ground, a female with a lyre, draped, and moving away from a male wearing an animal skin and grasping at her drapery, with part of a tree at the right edge, all standing on a thin ground that does not extend the length of panel, with two small portions of ground on left and right sides.