Five various chocolate-dip white stoneware medallions and plaques perhaps Turner, comprising: an oval medallion showing 'Priam begging the body of Hector from Achilles' on a smear-glaze ground (pierecd for hanging, chip to rim; another decorated with the same subject on a light smear-glazed ground, the reverse pierecd for hanging; a circular medallion with a kneeling figure of a woman reading from a scroll (wear and firing faults); a square plaque with a kneeling woman reading, approached by another holding a book on a light smear-glaze ground; and an octagonal plaque with 'The Sacrifice of Peace' on a light smear-glazed ground, incised titled to reverse, circa 1790
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Five various chocolate-dip white stoneware medallions and plaques perhaps Turner, comprising: an oval medallion showing 'Priam begging the body of Hector from Achilles' on a smear-glaze ground (pierecd for hanging, chip to rim; another decorated with the same subject on a light smear-glazed ground, the reverse pierecd for hanging; a circular medallion with a kneeling figure of a woman reading from a scroll (wear and firing faults); a square plaque with a kneeling woman reading, approached by another holding a book on a light smear-glaze ground; and an octagonal plaque with 'The Sacrifice of Peace' on a light smear-glazed ground, incised titled to reverse, circa 1790
See colour plate V
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Lot Essay
Cf. Wedgwood by Robin Reilly, Vol. I, pl. 6767 (for the last)