Taurus the Bull

Designed by Arnold Machin, with Eric Ravilious, Wedgwood

1945-1955

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Small oval medallion of solid blue jasper with white bas relief of Bellerophon watering Pegasus below Parnassus – Pegasus, the winged horse, led by Bellerophon bows his head in drink before attacking the three-headed monster Chimaera – set in a simple silver mount with horizontal pin on reverse.
Obverse: Bust in profile right. Reverse: A crown above a scepter and sword (crossed) with oak branches left and laurel branches right.
Large, heavy oval portrait medallion of light blue jasper with blue jasper dip and white relief, with the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, in classical drapery facing almost front, behind him in white relief Newton's comet of 1680, the first comet discovered by telescope.
Oval medallion of light blue jasper with white jasper relief depicting the "Bourbonnais Shepherd," a man sitting on a rock under a tree with a dog.