The Sacrifice

Modeled by William Beattie, Wedgwood

About 1867

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief scene of Charlotte at the tomb of Werther
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, at left part of tree next to a draped male holding a staff next to draped female holding lyre, a male wearing an animal skin playing two pipes, a male figure wearing an animal skin and holding a staff supporting a man with a grape leaf wreath, draped and reaching for a ewer on the ground, a female with a lyre, draped, and moving away from a male wearing an animal skin and grasping at her drapery, with part of a tree at the right edge, all standing on a thin ground that does not extend the length of panel, with two small portions of ground on left and right sides.
Very simple footed silver bowl of bulbous form, slightly concave at shoulder with on one side the (later) engraved coat-of-arms, probably of the McIntyre and/or Evans families.
Soft-paste porcelain iris flower on a brown mound base, decorated in shades of blue, purple and yellow with green leaves.