Bowl

Norman Wilson, Wedgwood

20th century

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Small stoneware bowl with low foot and tall sides, Raku fired, the body glazed a bright reddish-orange and with two narrow cream-colored bands around the middle, the glaze with irregularities and dark scorch marks that cause the orange glaze of the lower body to be mostly obscured.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Claudius (11 BC-54 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name CLAUDIUS impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
At the Peace of Posen on December 11, 1806, Friedrich August joined the Rheinbund, which was founded by Emperor Napoleon of France on July 17, 1806. At the same time, Napoleon made Friedrich August King of Saxony. After the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, at which Friedrich August fought alongside the French and lost, he was captured and imprisoned in Friedrichsfelde near Berlin.
Shallow oval dish of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, around the inner edge a border of leafy flowers on a vine, in the center well is a central decorative element comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs and on either side is a small relief scene, on one side "Sportive Love" and the other a seated woman with her hand to her face as an attendant cleans her feet with a jug of water, below a drapery.