Tea Canister

Wedgwood

1780-1800

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Small, silver basket of boat-shaped form raised on a scalloped foot, the foot ribbed at the edge and decorated with bright-cut dotted bands, the body likewise ribbed at the upper edge and with a band of bright-cut floral motifs, on all four sides engraved floral swags in a heart-shaped configuration, on two sides with a shield-shaped reserve, one left empty, the other with the image of a falcon and a banner containing the motto NE OUBLIE, the swing handle also ribbed, with a light gold wash inside.
Small stoneware bowl with low foot and tall sides, Raku fired, the body glazed a bright reddish-orange and with two narrow cream-colored bands around the middle, the glaze with irregularities and dark scorch marks that cause the orange glaze of the lower body to be mostly obscured.
Irregularly shaped, the figure in profile right holding a shield in right hand and sword in left.
Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, depicting one of Hercules’ twelve labors, given to him by Eurystheus, to steal the Golden Apples of immortality from the Garden of the Hesperides on Mt. Atlas. Originally modelled by John Flaxman in 1787