Teapot with Cover, Infuser and Insert

Wedgwood

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Large, deep polychrome majolica charger, or plate, in the istoriato style, in the middle with a scene in shades of blue, orange, green, and brown of Julius Caesar in Roman garb with cloak surrounded by Roman townspeople distributing and receiving wine and food within a courtyard defined by architectural structures and columns, probably based on a drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-66), the border decorated with grotesques on a whitened ground incorporating fantastic birds, part-human creatures, scrolls, stylized urns, and medallions imitating engraved gems, at the top the coat-of-arms of the Petrocchini family of Montelparo, Italy, the outer edge decorated in a modified egg-and-dart pattern; the reverse with a series of bright yellow bands and painted with the inscription SON FATTI DONI AL POPVLO ROMAO
Oval basalt plaque of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion
Rotund bowl that tapers to base. The exterior is decorated with plain dimensional bands around the form. There is a slight twisted rop design along the first tapered edge of the bowl. The interior is uniformly glazed black.
Figure of Harlequin seated on a tree stump on small base decorated with green leaves and colorful flowers, wearing a gray hat, his costume half yellow and half checkered in shades of blue, red, and black, wearing underneath a white shirt with ruffled collar and cuffs, his left hand is raised to his face, thumbing his nose, while his right hand twists the tail of a monkey, which is pinned under his right leg