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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 1513155, member: 56&quot;]Rhis is from Robin Reilly&#039;s book:</p><p>The first is Medusa, also called Gorgon&#039;s Head (from a design by Flaxman).</p><p>The second is Mercury</p><p>The Dancing hours you know.</p><p>?</p><p>The four cherubs are the four seasons</p><p>All I saw on the four plaques with three Putti each is Boys at Play</p><p><br /></p><p>The five classical figures seem to me to have a musical theme. They might be Muses.</p><p><br /></p><p>These do date to the 18th C, but stayed in production for a very long time.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know the date of your pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pieces like these might be framed in their own right, or they might have been incorporated into furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rectangular plaques sometimes show up on fireplace surrounds.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 18th C Gorgon&#039;s Head shown in Reilly has the back scooped out to remove excess material.&nbsp; That may be an indication that yours is later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking through Reilly is not an attempt to find these specific pieces, but only to find examples of the motifs.&nbsp; Once a motif is fashioned, they can pretty much be mixed and matched at will, so compositions and uses can vary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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