Plate

Designed by Clare Leighton, Wedgwood

1951

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Dinner plate, Lincoln shape, Birds of Southern Africa, Lesser Double-Collared Sunbird
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of two beaded sunflower paterae supporting a floral swag containing roses and other flowers with two trailing ends on the left, and the Death of Hector showing Achilles and Hector fighting, with a body on the ground on the right, the edge slightly beveled.
Small seated Bow porcelain cat of white color with brown patches. The eyes are painted yellow and paws have black lines for nails. The tail curves around next to the left of the feet. The cat sits with one foot slightly away from the body, on a circular base with painted flowers and green vines.
Delicate nine-piece cruet set comprised of a silver frame with wooden floor, the frame canoe-shaped with four fluted, slightly scrolled feet and pierced sides in a pattern of scrolls, ovals, and bands of leafy elements with pierced floral motifs at each end, with lightly engraved bands of squiggles and dots and on one side an empty oval reserve, in the middle a two-notched, long-stemmed handle with a pierced, eight-sided piece that holds the glass cruets in place, with urn-shaped finial and extended, heart-shaped handle, the frame holds eight cut-glass cruets, or glass bottles, of varying sizes, four with silver collars and glass stoppers, two with domed silver covers pierced in a dotted or dash pattern, and two with engraved, hinged, silver lids with duck-billed spouts and long, curved fluted handles, the cruets fit snuggly into the frame.