The Naming of Athens

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Creamware plate with a scalloped edge and elaborately pierced rim, the center well transfer-printed with the scene of a farm with a barn, cattle and sheep and a farmer in the foreground, within a round decorative border above which is the inscription JOHN PETER AND ANN DUPORT, GUERNSEY, 1786.
Oval medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief with a scene from the "Domestic Employment" series, a seated woman reading and a small child playing with a doll on the floor, mounted in a gilt-bronze frame.
Bust in profile left with drapery.
Large round, self-framed wall plaque, or roundel, of black basalt with the image of a Centaur teaching Achilles the kithara in relief against a red encaustic ground, framed by a reeded border with criss-cross ribbons and fluted cavetts.