Bulb Vase with Cover

Wedgwood

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Bust in profile right in uniform with the sash and Order of the Black Eagle.
Bust in profile left.
One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Africa: the figure of a male child with black skin wearing a green and purple wrap, a bright red coral necklace and an elephant headdress, over his right shoulder is a cornucopia filled with sheaves of wheat, which he supports on his left hip, his right hand grasps a scorpion, symbolic of the mystery and danger of this little known continent, at his feet is a snarling lion, the base decorated with flowers.
Bust