Teabowl and Saucer

Wedgwood

About 1860

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Bulb pot in the form of an oval barrel, the body glazed black with bands of green, the removable insert cover with two fitments to accommodate bulbs and with two larger and five smaller air holes in the insert cover, the interior and the underside are glazed green, the topside of the insert cover is covered with a tortoiseshell glaze.
Heavy, bulbous vase with wide mouth made of beige stoneware and covered with a thick black glaze over brown and with a semi-transparent gray glaze over the shoulder and running down the sides through which appear flecks of goldish brown and tan, the glaze flecked throughout with bits of clay, the foot left glaze free.
Solid light blue jasper vase with white jasper relief decoration, the so-called Michelangelo vase because the model is based on designs after the Italian artist Michelangelo, shape number 180, the vase or bowl with applied white floral festoons and arabesque floral motifs mounted atop the backs of three molded, white jasper classical figures draped in blue jasper, who appear to support the weight of the bowl, with a fluted column in the middle as support, on a triangular base.
Bust in profile right in Russian general's uniform with medals. This portrait was made in Paris during the spring of 1814, shortly before Posch returned to Berlin.