Titus (AD 79)

Wedgwood

About 1787

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Bust in profile left in French civil servant's uniform with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Basket of solid white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and applied white, yellow and green jasper relief decoration and round stand of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and applied white, yellow and green jasper relief decoration, the basket oval in shape with flared rim, the lower body decorated with a band of beading and a band of wavescroll motifs below a delicate lattice pattern, the main body with vertically applied white bunches of three reeds each and molded yellow straps applied horizontally to give the impression of a basket weave pattern, the rim with a modified egg and dart pattern, below the rim a band of ribbon and reed in green jasper, with two molded handles with applied yellow jasper ribbons wrapped around them and four applied white flowers, one on each side, the interior a plain polished blue, the stand with a plain blue central well surrounded by a band of beading and one of lattice work, the rim with the same vertically applied reeds intersected by molded yellow straps, with a band of green ribbon and reed around the edge.
Small footed cup of creamy beige stoneware with a slightly flared rim, covered with a flecked opaque white glaze upon which are painted simple human and animal figures in greenish gray around the main body of the cup, the foot is unglazed.
Sculptural vase of white porcelain with seven coral or leaf-like forms with ruffled edges extending out from the center.