Trio (Tea Bowl, Cup and Saucer)

Thomas Wedgwood and John Wedgwood, of the Big House, Burslem

About 1750

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Cast-iron silhouette plaque of a seated man and woman, the man with gun leaning against his knee and with a dog at his foot, he reaches over and places flowers in the woman's hair, she looks demurely down, holding a flower in her left hand, a flowering bush to her left.
Rectangular plaque of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip on the front and the back, on the front in white relief the scene of "Birth of Achilles" with Achilles mother seated on a daybed and her attendant preparing to baptize Achilles with a font.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of John Dryden (1631-1700) facing right. John Dryden was born in Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire the eldest of fourteen children. In 1650 Dryden went to Trinity College, Cambridge.where he studied the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. He graduated in 1654 with his BA, graduating top of the list for Trinity that year. Dryden returned to London during the Protectorate, where he obtained work with Cromwell's secretary of state, John Thurloe. This later helped him publish his first poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display.
Small rectangular blue jasper cameo with white floral relief possibly to be inset for jewellery or into a box.