A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPER OVAL MEDALLION, the dipped bright-blue ground with a three-quarter length portrait of Hygeia pouring a libation, the Sovereign's crown on a pedestal beside, inscribed on a ribbon cartouche above SAL.RESTIT., with lapidary-polished rim, impressed mark, circa 1789, 6.5cm. long; and dipped-blue and white oval plaque with a bust portrait of The Duke of Wellington in profile to the right, impressed mark, circa 1815, 7.5cm. high (2)

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A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPER OVAL MEDALLION, the dipped bright-blue ground with a three-quarter length portrait of Hygeia pouring a libation, the Sovereign's crown on a pedestal beside, inscribed on a ribbon cartouche above SAL^.RESTIT^., with lapidary-polished rim, impressed mark, circa 1789, 6.5cm. long; and dipped-blue and white oval plaque with a bust portrait of The Duke of Wellington in profile to the right, impressed mark, circa 1815, 7.5cm. high (2)

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The subject of the first medallion celebrates the temporary recovery by George III from an attack of porphyria in 1789

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