Venus Bound By Cupid

Wedgwood

About 1805

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The figure of a mustached Doctor Boloardo standing on a small white base, his knees bent and his right leg thrust forward, his hands at waist, wearing red knee breeches, white stockings and black shoes, his puce-colored coat with gilt buttons and details, a large white ruffled collar rests upon his gray cloak with yellow lining, he wears a large black hat over a blue skullcap
Self-framed oval plaque of black basalt molded in relief illustrating the attack on Niobe, a mortal of royal blood and mother of seven sons and seven daughters, and her children, on the lower left a group of young women cringe and cover themselves as they attempt to flee Artemis and Apollo on clouds above attacking them with bows and arrows at the direction of their mother, the demi-goddess Leto, while an older woman, Niobe, with a small child on her lap rests on a rocky surface, as one of the young women tries to help her up, on the right male riders fall to the rocks from their horses in fatal agony.
Lid has painted portrait of a woman
Pair of solid white jasper urns with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, each on a square plinth with anthemion motifs around, with round foot with floral motifs and beading on the stem, the lower body with stiff leaf and lotus motifs and the main body with the scene of Apollo and the Nine Muses and above this a band of white, the shoulder decorated with acanthus leaves and leafy anthemion motifs, the terminals of the handles comprised of satyr masks, whose fluted horns extend up and connect to form an angular loop handle, with plain neck and flared lip with like floral band, the small conforming cover with stiff leaf elements and ball finial, the interiors left white and with sump covers.