Priestess with a Snake

Wedgwood

See More of the Collection

Small covered pastille burner of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white jasper bas relief, resting on tripod base of blue with white edges and a band of laurel leaves and berries, the pastille bowl resting on three white dolphin feet and decorated on the sides with three large leafy garlands, the flat shoulder decorated with white bas relief in a pattern of stylized foliate elements, the slightly domed, pierced lattice cover with mushroom finial with florette on top
Oval black basalt intaglio, two-sided with profile portraits of bearded men on each side
Inkwell in the form of a winged dragon with two openings on his back, apparently converted from a match holder into an inkwell when the openings were used instead to hold a brass-and-tin sander and a porcelain inkwell.
Wide, simple fruit bowl, Keith Murray shape 3806, finished with a Moonstone glaze. A series of engine-turned concentric rings encircle the top of the bowl, near the mouth. The rings are repeated on the pedestal base.