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Boy's skirted gladiator style outfit, see photograph 565.2010
Tall creamware "Liverpool" jug of iconic shape decorated in purple-pink lustre and gold with on one side the image of former NFL player and Nike spokesman Colin Kaepernick taking a knee against institutional racism and on the other the Nike trademark swoosh and the word EQUALITY, under the spout the printed image of a kneeling enslaved woman in reference to Wedgwood's 1787 abolitionist medallion, surrounding this image are cries for liberty in both English and Arabic and justice in both English and Hebrew, printed and encircling the interior of the rim is the text of the 1st amendment, the ear-shaped handle decorated with the word AMERICA.
Vase of partially-glazed red stoneware with round foot and short stem, the body bulbous that narrows at the neck and has a flared rim (it perhaps once had a cover), the main body covered with layers of irregular, drippy beige glaze, the stem decorated with small, round, applied dots of red clay, on either side the body of a chicken emerges from the vase - the neck and head and part of the feathered wings, both in unglazed red stoneware.
A figural jug depicting an African-American man with exaggerated facial features, particularly his caricatured lips, nose and ears. His curly hair is formed by incised repeating loops, resembling scribbles. He wears a cap, hoop earrings, shirt with a stand up collar (and single visible stud or button), cravat, and a coat with broad lapels and buttons impressed with “J. LEHMAN,” the maker’s name. A large, buckle-like square probably surrounded a paper label for whatever product the jug contained. The figure has arms, but no hands, and is rendered to appear as if his hands are shoved in the pockets of his coat. There are small air holes at the back of each arm to prevent an explosion during firing. The jug’s handle is a shaped like the number 9, and is finished (where the tail of the handle meets the body of the jug) with a mold-formed grape and grape leaf motif found in some of Lehman’s other decorated vessels. There appears to be an oval incised on the bottom of the vessel.