Vase with a waisted form that flares out and then tapers to the base. The exterior is decorated with plain bands circling the form and a central band made up of horizontal, jagged grooves that decrease in size as they move down the vase. The lip of the vase declines inward toward the center of the vase. The vase's interior is glazed gray-blue with a slight green cast to it. The glaze does not extend completely to the bottom of the vase's interior where there are some lumps and areas with no final color glaze. The vase is heavy.

Vase

David Puxley, Wedgwood

1964-1967

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Oval medallion with profile portrait of Jean-Francois Marmontel (1723-1799), French writer and dramatist, born in the Limousin region (noe Haute Vienne). Educated at the Jesuit college at Mauriac. Marmontel became a teacher of philosophy at the Bernardine seminary at Toulouse. He attracted the notice of Voltaire, who advised him to go to Paris where he arrived in 1745. A tragedy produced in 1747 at once gave him celebrity. An introduction to Madame de Pompadour brought him the place of secretary to her brother, the Marquis de Marigny. Marmontel frequented the salon of Madame Geoffrin, and after the death of his friend, Boissy, he was given the Mercure de France. After a great deal of opposition Marmontel was elected to the Academy in 1763, and in 1783 was appointed Secretary and historiographer of France. He retired to Normandy at the outbreak of the revolution, dying there in 1799. This model comes from an unsigned engraving dated 1765
Octagonal lustre bowl with bronze exterior and mottled pearlized blue interior, fruit designs. Four of the eight fields on the outside of the bowl are decorated with larger fruit arrangements. a) grapes (purple glaze), a pear (orange/yellow glaze), leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) grapes (purple glaze), two peaches (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) grapes (purple glaze), an apricot (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) grapes (purple glaze), three mirabelles (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. These designs are alternated with individual fruit designs. a) a strawberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) a blackberry (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) an apricot (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. A rope-like pattern decorates the upper rim of the outside of the bowl. The inside has a mother-of-pearl glaze with a geometric, gilded pattern along the upper rim of the bowl with a red glaze. In the inside there are six individual fruits equally distributed throughout the bowl, halfway up the side. a) a strawberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) a raspberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. e) an apricot (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. f) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with three large strawberries (orange/yellow/red glaze), leaves (green glaze), and two strawberry blossoms (one green, one blue glaze), gilding used to outline the design.
Large, simple silver spoon with deep oval bowl and long tapered handle, the tip of the handle engraved with a star motif.
Rotund bowl that tapers to base. The exterior is decorated with plain dimensional bands around the form. There is a slight twisted rop design along the first tapered edge of the bowl. The interior is uniformly glazed black.