Stars Plaque

Wedgwood

About 1875-1879

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of six winged cupids, each helping support a laurel leaf garland punctuated with seeded medallions, one of the center puttis is carrying a quiver and the far right putti is carrying a trumpet, all on a thin ground.
Self-framed oval plaque of black basalt molded in relief illustrating the attack on Niobe, a mortal of royal blood and mother of seven sons and seven daughters, and her children, on the lower left a group of young women cringe and cover themselves as they attempt to flee Artemis and Apollo on clouds above attacking them with bows and arrows at the direction of their mother, the demi-goddess Leto, while an older woman, Niobe, with a small child on her lap rests on a rocky surface, as one of the young women tries to help her up, on the right male riders fall to the rocks from their horses in fatal agony.
Oval plaque of white jasper with blue jasper dip on the front and back, on the front with in white relief a variation of "The Discovery of Achilles" featuring a kneeling female, daughter of Lycomedes, grabbing Achilles leg, Achilles with sword and shield, and Menelaus with helmet at his feet, reaching for his sword.
Small bowl of beige stoneware, funnel-shaped and with ribbing, or fluting, on the exterior, covered with a light gray-blue glaze that allows the color of the clay to show through on the edges of the ribbed decoration, the interior glaze ranging from light blue to beige to brown in an irregular and mottled fashion.