Inkwell and Quill Pen

Wedgwood

About 1800

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Octagonal vase with clipped shoulder and flared lip, made of creamy beige, smooth stoneware covered on the interior with a mottled brown glaze and on the exterior with a clear glaze that allows the color of the clay to show through, each of the eight panels on the body decorated with brown glaze in a pattern of stylized leafy motifs.
Small bulb pot of white stoneware covered with an opaque variegated agate glaze in shades of brown, beige, green and yellow, below the lip a band of gilded fret work, the fitted insert cover with two fitments to hold bulbs and two smaller air holes, both the interior of the pot and underside of the cover are glazed black.
A group of 245 identical, small, round, plain "stones" of black basalt designed for use in the game of Go.
Creamware hot water kettle on stand, the kettle plain and bulbous with double rope, twisted bail handle that terminates on either side in floral heads, the base of the spout is supported by a female head, with flat cover with mushroom finial, the conforming stand of circular form and supported by three masked feet, the body of the stand is embellished with decorative piercing, with two rope twisted handles and three lugs which prevent the kettle from sliding.