Bust, Lord Piers Wedgwood (Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood), 1954-2014

Model by Barry Dixon, Wedgwood

2009

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Soft-paste porcelain figure of a so-called "Mansion House Dwarf" or "Dwarf Crier" standing in full figure on a round, grassy base and wearing black trousers and shoes, pink vest with floral motifs, a brown waist band, blue sleeves and stockings, and a large Dutch cap with upturned brim, ribbons and gold highlights, the underside in purple lustre and with an advertising newsprint on the up turned brim of the hat advertising farm implements.
Large, rectangular porcelain platter of white porcelain with underglaze blue decoration, with truncated corners and hand modelled border of exotic shells of various sizes in high relief, in the center well the hand-painted image of Black civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, being set upon by police and dogs on May 3, 1963, after Andy Warhol's screen print "Race Riot" made after the incident in 1964, the space on either side of the main image filled in solid blue.
Small gilft bronze stamp box in the Rococo style with scrolled legs and on the lid a shell motif surrounding a porcelain insert decorated in enamel colors with a male figure in a landscape with baskets of flowers.
Vase "Triumph of Cybele", Wedgwood, stoneware (black basalt)