Letter

Written by Josiah Wedgwood

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Cast-iron silhouette plaque of a seated man and woman, the man with gun leaning against his knee and with a dog at his foot, he reaches over and places flowers in the woman's hair, she looks demurely down, holding a flower in her left hand, a flowering bush to her left.
Oval self-shanked chocolate basalt intaglio or cypher seal, "S H"
Creamware covered urn on small square base decorated with gold bands and a lattice and dot pattern all around, the round foot likewise with gold bands and painted flower and leafy sprigs, the main body painted on both sides with on one children in a landscape, the boy playing a flute, the landscape extends around the entire body and on the second side the scene of a group of children at a tree with a boy climbing on a wall to reach it, with two gilded satyr handles whose horns extend up and around to meet the lip, the shoulder and neck likewise decorated with flower and leaf sprigs, the fixed domed cover with gold bands and ball finial highlighted in gold.
Rectangular plaque of white jasper with olive green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the altar of Aesculapius, god of healing, featuring a tripod urn with a snake in the center, the plaque for use in a fireplace surround.