Commemorative Plate

Clare Leighton, Wedgwood

20th century

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Squat, urn-shaped silver covered sugar bowl resting on a square base that is decorated with bright-cut engraving in a pattern of floral motifs at the corners and bands of squiggly dots between, the round, pierced foot decorated with stylized floral elements in roundels, the body with a pierced middle section in a repetitive geometric pattern that mirrors the decoration on the foot, the upper body engraved with empty circular reserves and leafy and dot swag motifs, the neck with a pierced wavescroll band below a beaded edge, the elongated, domed cover likewise engraved on the inverted shoulder with bands of repeating dots, scallops, and ovals, with small urn finial.
Cream jug of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, with loop handle that is angled at the top, and elongated spout.
A Bow porcelain female figure standing on a painted scrolled base. She stands holding a bouquet of flowers in her right hand bent at the elbow towards her body. The other hand also holding flowers in resting on a short vase shaped vessel, possibly an incense burner that sits on a marbled pedestal covered with flowers and leaves from the front. Her dress is painted in various colored flowers with a blue and rose colored sash wrapped around her waist and back. The hair has green and burgundy colored ribbons painted.
Cast-iron key hook in the form of an anchor decorated with a leafy wreath, in the center a medallion with the portrait head of a male, probably Neptune, in profile left, the back mounted with a hook.