Tea Bowl

Ewen Henderson

1999

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Documentary encaustic-decorated, two-handled, covered vase of black basalt, after the antique kantharos form, shield-shaped with upright strap handles, painted in red with on one side a bearded Jupiter seated with thyrsus (a staff or spear tipped with an ornament like a pine cone) and Ganymede standing with a komast (drinking) cup in the Greek red-figure style, the other side decorated with an elaborate foliate scroll cartouche and inscribed inside “W. M. Moseley 1788”, the flat cover with a broad cylindrical finial decorated with a border of acanthus leaves and geometric patterned bands.
Pair of solid white jasper urns with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, each resting on a small square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the round foot with a band of overlapping leaves highlighted with shading, the bulbous, lower body with leafy and lotus elements and the main body decorated with a scene of Apollo and the Nine Muses, likewise highlighted with shading, above the main scene a pattern of floral garlands held in place by small paterae, with two upright, fluted and slightly extended loop handles, along the shoulder a band of anthemion motifs, the conforming flat cover with a band of scrolls along the edge and on top in a star-like pattern stylized acanthus leaves, the tall finial baluster shaped, the interior white.
Bust three-quarters right. A pendant to the portrait of her husband, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1986.475a).
Oval tray of light blue jasper with light blue jasper dip, with raised edge decorated in white relief in a pattern of overlapping acanthus leaves and stiff leaf motifs, the center well with an oval reserve framed by a band of intertwined ribbons, in the center a sunflower, the white relief with some shading.