The Spring, a Sketch for A Ceiling

Émile Aubert Lessore, Wedgwood

1873

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Custard cup of "tear" or "comma" shape of solid dark blue jasper with white relief decoration in a lattice pattern.
Plaster cast of the Portland Vase taken from the mold that was taken from the original vase from which Josiah Wedgwood made his copies, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage.
Oval basalt medallion with portrait of David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936) born in Nantwich Stapeley he grew to become a important Royal Navy officer fighting in the Madhist war and the Boxer Rebellion and later becoming the commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. He was awarded many high ranking medals and became a Member of the Order of Merit and given the title of Earl Beatty in 1919.
Terpsichore, Muse of Dance, Modeled after a Wedgwood medallion by John Flaxman, Jr., Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, cast iron