Oyster Dish

Wedgwood

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One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. America: the figure of a male Caribbean native child with red skin wearing a colorful feathered costume and headdress and carrying a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder, his left hand holds a bow, under his right foot and resting against a stump decorated with flowers is a small green caiman with open mouth.
Dinner plate, Lincoln shape, Birds of Southern Africa, Lesser Double-Collared Sunbird
Small covered pastille burner of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white jasper bas relief, resting on tripod base of blue with white edges and a band of laurel leaves and berries, the pastille bowl resting on three white dolphin feet and decorated on the sides with three large leafy garlands, the flat shoulder decorated with white bas relief in a pattern of stylized foliate elements, the slightly domed, pierced lattice cover with mushroom finial with florette on top
Creamware Liverpool-type jug decorated on one side, transfer-printed in black, a ship at sea and at full mast with an American flag and on the other side, likewise printed, a map of America with a banner reading WASHINGTON and the figures of Washington and others along with a trumpeting angel, below a staff with the word LIBERTY, with scattered leafy gold elements around the body and swags of gilding below the rim, below the beak-shaped spout the American eagle with the motto of the United States, with loop handle.