Small footed bowl of white stoneware covered on the outside with a fresh, smooth grass-green glaze and on the inside with a contrasting yellowish-brown glaze that tapers to brown at the well, the outer body decorated around with three bands in a geometric pattern made using the roulette wheel and highlighted in brown glaze.

Bowl

David Puxley, Wedgwood

1964-1967

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Oval medallion with relief portrait of Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), He was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist and physician. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology." In addition, Boerhaarve was the first physician that put thermometer measurements to clinical practice.
Colorful round dessert plate of "Catherine" shape edged in brown enamel, the rim decorated with a border of green ivy leaves and berries on a vine, the interior well encircled with a band of brown gadrooning and painted with a view of the ruins of the chapel at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, England, within a natural landscape with two male figures in the foreground, below the scene "The Chapel in Fairley Castle, Somersetshire"
Pair of tall, gilt-bronze candlesticks in the Neo-Byzantine style, each resting on four regal-looking, stylized winged panthers, with square columnar stems decorated with brightly-colored enamel in the cloisonné technique in a pattern of scrolls and leaf motifs, the top and base of the stem with gadrooning highlighted in blue enamel, with four bearded masks at the top of the stem supporting an urn shaped candle nozzle that is likewise decorated with bright enamel in the cloisonné technique and with a band of gadrooning highlighted in blue at the upper edge.
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