Wine Goblet

Hester Bateman, London, England

1786-1787

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Round creamware dinner plate with petal-shaped rim decorated in monochrome sepia enamel with a hand painted scene of St. Briavels Castle in Gloucestershire, England, from the east, within a border of false gadroons, the rim of the plate has a garland of oak leaves and acorns around its perimeter with a central shield-shaped cartouche within which a stylized, green-enameled frog, with a small band of sepia enamel on the edge of the rim.
Rectangular tablet of solid light blue jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration depicting five of the nine Muses—Erato with her kithara, Muse of choral dance and song; Melpomene holding a dagger, Muse of tragedy; Calliope writing, Muse of epic poetry; Thalia holding a comic mask, Muse of comedy; and Urania next to her globe, Muse of astronomy.
Figure of a youth holding a shield in his right hand and a torch in his left, with crossed hammer and gad and a cornucopia below.
Oval dark blue jasper plaque with white relief scene depicting Pygmalion creating the statue that is eventually brought to life by Aphrodite.