Wall Pocket with Man’s Face

England

About 1760

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Tall, footed, urn-shaped vase of white stoneware covered with a variegated glaze in shades of greens and browns, with satyr mask handles with elongated horns that extend to the lip, the foot with a band of overlapping leaves, the vase mounted on a small, square basalt plinth, with traces of gilding on the handles and at the shoulder, the small cover with ball finial.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of Venus and Cupid, set in gold and encircled in seed pearls as a pendant, with gold chain
Covered urn (cover not original) of white stoneware resting on a small black basalt plinth, the body of the urn covered with an agate, or crystalline, glaze in shades of gray, browns and blues designed to resemble stone, the two ear-shaped handles left white and with traces of gilding, the handles terminate in masks of bearded tritons at the shoulder, the long neck with an extended lip.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware