Small enameled copper box with white ground on the lid the image of a kneeling slave in chains facing left against a landscape with ship and the motto AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER

Patch Box

England

1790-1800

  • Titles Patch Box (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium enameled copper with metal mounts
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.2537.2008
  • Object Name patch box
  • Classification Containers

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