Lot 151
151
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A Wedgwood pale-blue Jasper oval scent-bottle and a stopper

CIRCA 1785, THE METAL STOPPER PROBABLY LATER

Details
A Wedgwood pale-blue Jasper oval scent-bottle and a stopper
Circa 1785, the metal stopper probably later
Applied in white relief with figures, possibly emblematic of Day and Night, of Diana and Cupid to one side and to the other with Venus and Cupid with poppies after Montfaucon beneath garlands and within dot and ropetwist borders, the neck with a stiff-leaf border, lapidary polished edges
4¾in. (12cm.) high overall

Lot Essay

Cf. Elizabeth Bryding Adams, The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art (1992), col. pl. 124 for a similar example. See also fig. 24, ibid., for the derivation of the subject from L'Antiquité Expliquée by Montfaucon.

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