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Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County

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A gilt, cast-iron cross with the portrait medallion of Queen Luise of Prussia in profile right, the reverse with the engraved inscription "Luise Königin Von Preußen geb=d=10ten Merz 1776 gest= d= 19tn Juli 1810" and engraved, decorative, scrolling motifs.
Small oval medallion of white jasperware with black jasper relief of an enslaved African man wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?
Obverse: Head in profile left. Reverse: In the center a lyre with laurel branches.
In the middle the gate to the entrance hall at Babelsberg Castle, flanked on either side by figures from the iron bridge in Sanssouci, mounted in cast-iron frame.