Bread Plate from the Theodore Roosevelt White House Service

Designed by John Goodwin, and Herbert A. Cholerton, Wedgwood

1903

See More of the Collection

Oval black basalt intaglio with the Three Graces, mounted in pinchbeck shank
Small caneware urn decorated with encaustic painting, of amphora shape with black bands around the edge of the foot and stem, the main body decorated with the image of a bearded man and a woman in classical dress at an altar; the man holds a staff and a bowl and the woman a jug (Libation to Zeus?), below them is a band of classical inspiration and around the neck is a decorative band of abstract leafy elements, the reverse of the vase has a purely decorative motif of scrolling vines and anthemions, the handles and lip likewise edged in black.
Pair of solid white jasper urns with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, each on a square plinth with anthemion motifs around, with round foot with floral motifs and beading on the stem, the lower body with stiff leaf and lotus motifs and the main body with the scene of Apollo and the Nine Muses and above this a band of white, the shoulder decorated with acanthus leaves and leafy anthemion motifs, the terminals of the handles comprised of satyr masks, whose fluted horns extend up and connect to form an angular loop handle, with plain neck and flared lip with like floral band, the small conforming cover with stiff leaf elements and ball finial, the interiors left white and with sump covers.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Mahomet II (1430-1481) Sultan of Turkey. born at Adrianople. Suceeded his father, Murad II, in 1451 and two years later besieged and reduced Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Emprie and giving the Turks a good foothold in Europe. Although he was defeated at Belgrade, he went on to annex most of Greece and Albania.