Boy with Basket

Wedgwood

1862

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Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is smooth in texture and is green, varying in tone from gray-green to olive green and khaki. The exterior is flecked with brown specks. The exterior has impressed, horizontal lines around the vase's form, irregular in size but fairly consistent in placement along the vase. The vase's interior is glazed dark green and has thin, raised horizontal lines corresponding in placement to the exterior's horizontal lines.
Covered chocolate cup and saucer of undecorated white stoneware, the cup footed and goblet shaped with two double scroll handles, the conforming cover with flat finial, the saucer molded with a slight indent in the middle to hold the cup, the interior of the cup is lapidary polished and the underside of the cover is glazed.
Large oval basalt medallion with profile portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) facing right, decorated by Albert H. Bentley.
Small footed teapot of red earthenware covered with a thick, opaque black glaze, the body globular and with molded decoration in a pattern of flowers and berry vines, with crabstock handle and spout, the conforming cover with bird finial.