Two Females, a Young Angel and a Male Figure

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Oval basalt plaque with nine Bacchanalian boys at play in a vineyard
Large, heavy beer pump handle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with on one side the muse Urania, muse of astronomy, and on the other the muse Melpomene, muse of tragedy, between them are dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs.
Obverse: Arms of Krakow. Reverse: Three areas enclosed by oak leaves, each with an inscription.
Tall, irregularly shaped bowl of reddish stoneware, Raku-fired creating a scorched, blackish-gray chalky surface, below the rim a series of diagonal lines extending around the body, the interior black.