Vases

Wedgwood

About 1850

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This model is based on Rauch's monument for Friedrich II in Berlin.
Cast-iron paper clamp in the form of a raven's head with long beak (originally bronzed), detailed feathers, and beady glass eyes, in two pieces with a hinge and steel spring that opens the beak to hold paper.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief woman with putti depicting Night and Day, also known as Venus and Cupid, or Night shedding Poppies, and Ceres and Triptolemus. Original model is attributed to John Bacon Senior 1777-1780
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, at left part of tree next to a draped male holding a staff next to draped female holding lyre, a male wearing an animal skin playing two pipes, a male figure wearing an animal skin and holding a staff supporting a man with a grape leaf wreath, draped and reaching for a ewer on the ground, a female with a lyre, draped, and moving away from a male wearing an animal skin and grasping at her drapery, with part of a tree at the right edge, all standing on a thin ground that does not extend the length of panel, with two small portions of ground on left and right sides.