Horse

Modeled by Edward Burch, Wedgwood

About 1790

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Obverse: Two cherubs with mask. Reverse with inscription.
Creamware covered urn on small square base decorated with gold bands and a lattice and dot pattern all around, the round foot likewise with gold bands and painted flower and leafy sprigs, the main body painted on both sides with on one children in a landscape, the boy playing a flute, the landscape extends around the entire body and on the second side the scene of a group of children at a tree with a boy climbing on a wall to reach it, with two gilded satyr handles whose horns extend up and around to meet the lip, the shoulder and neck likewise decorated with flower and leaf sprigs, the fixed domed cover with gold bands and ball finial highlighted in gold.
Bulb pot in the form of an oval barrel, the body glazed black with bands of green, the removable insert cover with two fitments to accommodate bulbs and with two larger and five smaller air holes in the insert cover, the interior and the underside are glazed green, the topside of the insert cover is covered with a tortoiseshell glaze.
Round plaque of solid light blue jasper with border of laurel leaves and berries in white relief.