Motto Mug

Harry Barnard, Wedgwood

About 1900

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Porcelain figure of a woodpecker perched on a tree stump, with green back feathers, black open beak and black feet.
Small footed, irregularly round bowl of reddish earthenware covered with a greenish ash glaze, which is runny, drippy and scorched in spots, it runs irregularly down the sides of the bowl leaving part of the foot unglazed.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Queen of France married in 1774 to Louis XVI. Portrait taken from an original medallion by Jean Baptiste Nini
Cup and saucer of solid medium blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the main body of the cup decorated with the Dancing Hours with a band of scrolled ribbon below the rim, with double-scrolled handle with a white leaf on top, the saucer with stiff leaf and lotus motifs.