Commemorative Mug

Shape designed by Keith Murray, Wedgwood

1936/37

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Large centerpiece of Wedgwood Majolica in the form of two naiads, or nymphs, each with long brownish-blond hair held back by a leafy wreath encircling their heads and wearing a blue bathing costume, amongst molded, blue-green waves that form the base and holding between them an outstretched fishing net that serves as a basket for fruit or the like.
Oval black jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Winston Churchill smoking a cigar (1874-1965) facing left. Winston Churchill was a British politician who was Prime Minister between 1940 and 1945 and again between 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to Victory against Nazi Germany. He is well known for his famous speech "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
Oval dark blue jasper intaglio with profile portrait of man (King of Prussia, Frederick the Great?)
Oval tri-color jasper (black, blue, and white) medallion with white relief profile portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, with black relief laurel leaf self-frame