Adam

Molded decoration by Charles Toft, Slipwork by Frederick Hurten Rhead, Wedgwood

About 1879

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Small vinaigrette in the form of a fish of a bass type with gray-green scales and red fins, the middle opens up to reveal a small container covered with a pierced lid of gilt silver, with additional gilt silver mounts and eye attached to the nose for hanging.
Small plain, round box of ivory with a portrait miniature of Madame Récamier (Juliette Récamier) after the painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Louvre, in gold mount.
Small oval medallion of dark blue jasperware with white jasper relief of an enslaved African man wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?
Oval tray of light blue jasper with light blue jasper dip, with raised edge decorated in white relief in a pattern of overlapping acanthus leaves and stiff leaf motifs, the center well with an oval reserve framed by a band of intertwined ribbons, in the center a sunflower, the white relief with some shading.