Shell plate

Plate

Wedgwood, Painted by Émile Aubert Lessore

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Small oval medallion of black basalt with the relief profile portrait bust of David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor, in classical drapery, to right, with the name GARRICK below the truncation.
Oval medallion with relief profile of Lord Samuel Hood (1724-1816), British Admiral, Born in Dorset, Entering the Navy in 1741; promoted post captain in 1759; commissioner of Portland dockyard 1778; served with Lord Rodney in the West Indies, 1780-1783, for which he was promoted commander-in-chief. In his actions in the West Indies against the French commander, de Grasse, Hood showed himself a masterly tactician. He stood for Parliament in 1784 against Fox for Westminster and was elected.
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.
Candleholder of black basalt in the form of a bearded, naked Triton with seaweed clinging to his thighs sitting atop a rocky base and holding in both hands a whorled conch shell that functions as the candleholder.