Voltaire

Wedgwood

About 1780

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Hector Taking Leave of Andromache, Modeled after a cut stone by Luigi Pichler, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Round blue jasper plaque with white relief for the Royal Society of Arts, founded in 1754
Obverse: Head in profile right. Reverse: Eagle with laurel branch.
Cream jug of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, with loop handle that is angled at the top, and elongated spout.