Bowl

Ursula Morley Price

About 1985

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Vase with a round, exaggerated cup shape. The vase's exterior is colored dark green that tapers to light green towards the base of the bowl. There is a buildup of dark glaze around the center of the vase that appears to be dripping down the form in places. The vase's exterior is rough in texture around the top and bottom of the vase, with thin, irregularly-sized horizontal lines around the form. the rim of the vase is unglazed, beige stoneware. The vase's interior is partially glazed, the upper half of the itnerior ranging in color from orange to dark red. The lower half of the interior is light green, then the interior's center is dark red. The interior also features the same thin, horizontal lines that are on the exterior.
Footed, molded potpourri vase or bulb pot of buff-colored caneware decorated with enamel, the round foot with two blue bands around it, the body fluted and painted with blue bands and green bamboo leaves to give the impression of bamboo poles, with two small handles and a band of gold around the shoulder and below the lip, between the gold bands a band of light blue enamel with a meandering green leaf and berry vine, a band of blue along the edge of the lip, the conforming cover pierced with holes of varying sizes with blue edging and green palmettes, the tall, round, open finial fluted and decorated with blue bands.
Rare set of four silver candlesticks each on a square plinth with canted corners chased with guilloche on the sides and flowers on the edges, the fluted foot rises to a baluster-shaped stem decorated with palmetto leaves and swags, the upper stem likewise fluted and supporting an urn-shaped socket decorated with similar leaves, with removable fluted nozzle
Small oval medallion of white jasperware with black 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?