Eleven Assorted Medallions, England, 18th/19 century, an impressed Wedgwood solid blue jasper with warriors in relief, lg. 2 1/2; a solid blue jasper with portrait of Strozzi Medusa, lg. 2; a plaster portrait of Thomas Bentley, lg. 4; a pair of painted plaster portraits depicting Hermes and Diogenes, each inscribed on the reverse, lg. 2 1/4; a painted stone terra-cotta with portrait depicting Henry IV, lg. 4 5/8; a solid white jasper portrait of Rousseau, lg. 1 5/8; a bisque portrait of Matthaeus Boulton Esq., dia. 3 5/8; a solid light blue jasper double-sided with classical figures, dia. 1 7/8; and two dark blue jasper dip with allegorical figures, a circular, dia. 1 1/8, and oval, lg. 1 3/4 in.
Provenance: Grigsby Collection.
Condition
Condition: Medusa: Broken into several pieces and professionally restored; edge nicks.
Painted Hermes; Several edge chips.
Henry IV: Edge flakes to front and back.
Boulton portrait: Light surface staining.
Classical double-sided: Shallow rim flakes to either side.
Dark blue with white relief, 1 3/4": Some firing lines along the ground of the landscape.
All others in very good condiiton throughout with no evidence of any cracks, chips or restorations.
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