The thoughts both sentimental and elegant must have been uppermost in the minds of t...
The thoughts both sentimental and elegant must have been uppermost in the minds of the Wedgwood designers when these elaborately contoured, domed lidded boxes were offered, obviously destined for a lady's dressing table.
The low oval box, with a profile articulated to suggest a turtle back, is adorned with sprig groups appropriate to its elegant and frivolous function, frolicking cupids and a couple more heroic subjects, bound together within a laurel border.