Vase

Decoration after a design by Colonel Henry Hope Crealock, Wedgwood

1875

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Oval dark blue jasper dip front and back with polishing to sides cameo with white relief of A sacrifice to Hygeia
Oval green jasper plaque with white relief of a classical women carrying a basket of fruit
Figure of the poet John Milton standing at a podium on a rectangular base in contemporary dress with drapery, holding in his left hand a scroll upon which a text from his "Paradise Lost" in gilt reading, " ....just and righteous. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
Oval medallion with relief portrait of Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), He was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist and physician. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology." In addition, Boerhaarve was the first physician that put thermometer measurements to clinical practice.