Large creamware mug made to commemorate the American Bicentennial in 1976, the main body decorated at the top with a band of large gold stars and at the bottom with two bands of smaller stars, in the center are two American flags waving in the wind on either side of a black American eagle with outstretched wings highlighted in gold, on one side the "Betsy Ross" flag with a gold banner below with the date 1776, and on the other a modern American flag with a banner and the date 1976, the loop handle and rim of the mug highlighted in gold.

Bicentennial Mug

Designed by Richard Talbot Guyatt, Wedgwood

1976

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Oval black basalt medallion with profile portrait of Virgil facing right
Cast-iron silhouette plaque of a seated man and woman, the man with gun leaning against his knee and with a dog at his foot, he reaches over and places flowers in the woman's hair, she looks demurely down, holding a flower in her left hand, a flowering bush to her left.
Obverse: The conjoined busts of King Friedrick Wilhelm III (1773-1840; 1797 King) and Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810) in profile left on a pedestal decorated with oak leaves. Reverse: Goddess of Nature seated while a winged genius of the mining industry lifts her veil, lions lie at her feet.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in slate blue-gray jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage. The white jasper used for the relief decoration has been given a blue tint prior to being pressed into the molds.