Peace Plaques

Wedgwood, Retailed by Soane & Smith

1919

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Classical Warrior Collapsing in Front of a City Gate, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Footed creamer of earthenware covered with a thick, opaque black glaze, with scroll handle and beak spout, the pear-shaped body covered with an applied pattern of leafage and berry decoration, with traces of gilding.
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.
Small cast-iron cross pendant, each of the arms three-part, in the form of Gothic tracery motifs, the central medallion is in the form of a gold-mounted rosette.