Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Newton with a 'shooting star' on the right with a blue background, white portrait.(1642-1727) was an English natural philosopher and mathematician. Newton's formulation of the law of gravity from observing the fall of an apple came in 1666. He went on to devise a reflecting telescope and study Descartes' geometry. His most important published work is the Principia mathematica of 1684. His Optics first appeared in 1704. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Sir Isaac Newton

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Oval blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Sacrifice to Hymen. To the left of the altar are winged boys holding a trumpet and a torch, and to the right are two others leading a goat and carrying an olive-branch. this was modelled from an engraving by Bartolozzi c.1778
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Large, round, shallow bowl with scalloped edges and fluted sides of dark red stoneware and covered with a thick, opaque beige ash glaze that is pitted and scorched, in the central well a scroll-like motif.
Bust three-quarters right.