Gravy Spoon or Ladle

Wedgwood

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Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Mahomet II (1430-1481) Sultan of Turkey. born at Adrianople. Suceeded his father, Murad II, in 1451 and two years later besieged and reduced Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Emprie and giving the Turks a good foothold in Europe. Although he was defeated at Belgrade, he went on to annex most of Greece and Albania.
The dish in the shape of a shell on a rectangular base with four leafy feet, upon this a uniformed man with raised right fist holding a peasant at the throat.
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.
Coffee biggin of solid white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the coffee pot of bulbous shape with loop handle and curved spout, the body with applied white lattice work and vignettes of classical figures, the strainer that sits atop the pot of cylindrical shape and likewise decorated with lattice work motifs and classical figures, the conforming cover similarly decorated with lattice work and small classical vignettes, including the Cupid Seller and Priam Begging Achilles for the Body of Hector, with Sybil finial, the interior of the pot is glazed.