Oval: 6.5cm (2.6in) x 4cm (1.6in)
Jasperware oval plaque in blue dip with white low relief portrait George III (1738-1820) wearing a laurel wreath, beneath the the State Crown of George I and a banderole inscribed ‘Health restored’; set in a period ebonised wood frame.
An oval jasperware plaque in blue dip with white low relief portrait George III wearing a laurel wreath, beneath the the State Crown of George I and a banderole inscribed ‘Health restored’. The present plaque, attributed to Wdegewood of Eturuia, was produced to celebrate George III's recovery from his first period of illness in 1789. The Royal Collection holds a comparable plaque featuring Hygeia, the goddess of health.
Cf. Reilly and Savage, Wedgwood: the Portrait Medallions, p.167, version h(ii).