Sweet Dish

Wedgwood

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Oval creamware relish dish with shell edge highlighted in a lightish aqua-teal green, the sides rounded, the dish deeper at the short ends which are raised higher than the long sides.
Portrait bust of the poet and historian Friedrich von Schiller in profile right.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three draped Muses on the left, Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, leaning on a column, Polymnia, Muse of Sacred Poetry, with a book in her raised hand, and Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry, with two horns, all on a thin ground, on the right the scene of Cupid in a Chariot Drawn by Lions, likewise on a thin ground.
In the shape of a stylized rosette with a female mask in the center.