Bacchanalian Boys at Play

Wedgwood, Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1778

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Pink oval box with painting of a castle on top.
Rectangular enameled box with a turquoise green ground with gold highlights, the lid painted with the scene of a stag hunt and the sides with small reserves painted with landscape scenes, the inside of the box on the bottom printed with the scene of a bear hunt in black.
Three-part pie dish of buff-colored caneware, oval in shape and with a liner with rouletted edge to resemble a pastry crust and a molded cover with decorative lattice elements and acanthus leaves, with an oval finial in the form of a small pastry dish with crust edge, the interior of the dish is glazed.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration featuring the Birth and Dipping of Achilles with a banded column and a small tree on the far left, and Thetis seated on a bed, draped following childbirth, while baby Achilles is being bathed in basin by a woman, on the right Thetis hold Achilles by his right ankle and dips him into the River Styx, a reclining river god and part of a tree are on the far right.