Poor Maria

Modeled by Edward Keys, Wedgwood

About 1850

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Creamware cup and saucer molded with a shell design around the inner rim of the saucer and the upper body of the cup, the cup footed and with a double, intertwined handle with leafy terminals, both cup and saucer transfer-printed in brown-black with the same scene of two exotic, or Liverpool, birds in a landscape with two additional birds in flight.
Small round brooch comprised of a double-sided circular band of dark blue jasperware set into a mount of silver, the band decorated on both sides with small white jasper reliefs of the signs of the zodiac, the center part loosely mounted and likewise set in a silver mount and containing a lock of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson's hair (reputedly), along with three small pearls, and strands of gold twine under glass, the reverse contains a piece of white grosgrain fabric under glass in the center, with a simple pin closure.
Bust in profile left.
Square plaque of solid white jasper with partial black jasper inlay and applied white jasper relief decoration, self-framed in white with a smaller black square in the center, featuring the applied white jasper scene of two cupids with a lion, the cupid in front carrying a dish and holding the lion on a chain, the cupid behind reaching out to a bird in flight, with a tree in the background.