Commemorative Vase

Wedgwood, Portrait medallion after a model (1798) by John de Vaere

1905

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Shallow, wide bowl of black stoneware covered inside and out with a rough volcanic glaze that is pink and white in the well against the dark ground.
Porcelain figure of a woodpecker perched on a tree stump, with green back feathers, black open beak and black feet.
Small oval medallion of white jasperware with black jasper relief of an enslaved African man wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?
Dark blue jasper medallion with white profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, commemorating her silver jubilee (1952-1977)