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Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1772

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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
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Porcelain Commedia dell'arte figural group of a Harlequin wearing a lilac conical hat, a white ruff over a gilt-edged jacket half patterned with yellow, lilac and black diamonds and the other half blue and patterned with playing cards, with large gold buttons, with white trousers and lilac shoes with big yellow bows, in his left hand he holds cherries, he kneels behind his female companion Columbine, who wears a lilac and yellow bodice and white skirt decorated with bright "indianische Blumen", seated with a basket of cherries on her lap, her right hand by a colorful green parrot perched on a gilt-edged, white tripod table, her left hand and gaze raised toward a second parrot perched on a leafy branch of the tree behind them, the mound base applied with colorful flowers and green leaves.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration with most of a tree on the left side, a boy seated on a stump with a pan flute, a young satyr removing the staff from the hand of young Bacchus, who sleeps beneath a tree wearing a grapevine crown, and a satyr seated on a rock eating grapes, with another partial tree on the right side, all on a thin ground that extends the length of the panel.