J M Blashfield Buff Terracotta Winged Harpy Urn c.1860An incredibly rare example of a terracotta urn depicting four mythical Harpies, attributed to John Marriott Blashfield c. 1860. The four bear breasted winged Harpies, sit linking their wings, at the four corners of the turned waisted socle, on a squared shaped fluted plinth. John Marriott Blashfield, remarked in his essay Account of the History and Manufacture of Ancient and Modern Terracotta (1855) that he had been inspired to make a kind of