Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), British Diplomat and Antiquarian

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1772

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Radiant bust almost front, slightly left, the head in profile left.
Small oval medallion of solid light blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of The Three Graces – the dispensers of Liberality, Eloquence and Wisdom as three classically dressed young women dancing in a circle with hands clasped – in simple silver mount with horizontal pin behind.
Plate of white soft-paste porcelain with scalloped edges decorated with the Kakiemon "Two Quail" pattern depicting a scene of two quails, one painted in iron red, and the other in blue with green tipped wing feathers, pecking at seeds beneath an arched prunus tree with blue painted trunk and iron-red and gilt decorated flowers in bloom, and facing a flowering shrub with large leaves, the edge with an iron-red meandering leaf border.
Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief of women and children dancing