Tazza or Crater Urn

Wedgwood

About 1815

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Bust in profile right.
One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Asia: the figure of a female child wrapped in loose-fitting silks trimmed with gold and wearing a jeweled bodice, her headdress is decorated with exotic fruits and flowers, in her right hand she holds a gilt censor or incense burner, her left hand clutches a small bouquet of precious spices, at her feet lies a recumbent camel with upturned head on a green grassy ground decorated with flowers.
Long rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene, depicting the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche in the middle flanked by cupids under a tree to the left and figures from the domestic employment to the right. broken and repaired
Small hollow drum for a lamp or candelabrum of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, round and with a hole at each end, the body with a band of oak leaves at the bottom and a band of intersecting circles at the top, the central body with four small relief scenes including, Cupid as Oracle; Endymion on Latmos; Hebe giving sustenance to the Eagle; and Coriolanus (Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome), between a series of dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs.