Solid light blue jasper tablet with applied white jasper relief decoration illustrating the education of Bacchus featuring from left the figure of the boy Bacchus standing on a rock surrounded by classically draped nymphs and satyrs a group of two satyrs one wearing an animal fur and holding a bowl another seated on a rock with his arm twisted around his back while Silenus beats him and a seated woman unwrapping the infant god from a cloth with a female figure behind her with cymbals and another pouring water into an urn in front of her with three additional nymphs on the right all classically draped and reaching toward the infant

The Education of Bacchus

Wedgwood

1790-1800

See More of the Collection

Oval dark blue jasper plaque with white relief of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche The subject was originally taken from a Renaissance gem a sardonyx then in the Marlborough collection and now in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston There are three known versions of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche all taken from the original Marlborough gem
Small snuff bottle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration with on one side the arms of the City of Ipswich UK and the name IPSWICH in a banner below on either side a goats head mask
Chinese export ware teapot with cover and stand underglaze blue landscape design
Cast iron statuette of Napoleon I Bonaparte standing with his left leg casually bent his left hand in his coat and his right hand at his side wearing the uniform of a French general with bicorn hat and long open coat a sword at his left hip the statuette resting on a tall square plinth with rectangular base decorated with anthemion motifs