The Spring, a Sketch for A Ceiling

Émile Aubert Lessore, Wedgwood

1873

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Green jasperware match holder and striker with relief frieze and stubbs horses in different poses around base. the horses modelled by Edward Burch after George Stubbs
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of a Zephyr, with polished edges
Tall bowl, or beaker, of rough beige stoneware, covered with a thick, opaque bluish green with gray mottled and drippy glaze in irregular shades ranging from light to dark.
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, each of the interior sides and above and below the printed scene a border of small blue octagonal elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.