Tray

Wedgwood

1982

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Vase of solid light blue jasper with white jasper relief decoration resting on a square white molded jasper plinth, the foot round and with applied acanthus relief decoration, with beading at the joint, the lower body with a band of stiff leaf motifs (one of which has sprung from the body during firing), the main body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series designed by Lady Elizabeth Templetown, with a thick band of overlapping laurel leaves on the shoulder and acanthus leaves on the neck, with a large band of beading at the lip (the cover missing, originally had two handles).
Tall, columnar vessel comprised of eight bulbous shapes stacked one upon the other and covered with an opaque, matte blue glaze, the lip flared.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles V (1500-1558), was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets"
Dish, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware