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Sir Arthur Wellesley, Earl (later Duke) of Wellington, Prince of Waterloo (1769-1852), British Field Marshal and Statesman

After a medal by Thomas Webb, Royal Prussian Iron Foundries

About 1815

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Simple vase, Keith Murrary shape 4216, of cream-colored body, covered with a celadon green slip. Four series of closely-spaced, parallel, engine-turned lines encircle the body to reveal the lighter body beneath the slip. The interior of the vase and flared pedestal are cream-colored.
Wedgwood Egyptian club jug of black basalt with iron red, black and white enamel decoration of a sphinx on either side of a bird in flight, with pinched lip and spout and loop handle.
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.
A vase with a bottle-like form. It is heavy and primarily black in color. The upper part o fthe vase has interspersed thin, red, and horizontal lines. The lower half of the vase features a dripping glaze on top of a mix of black bands, dark red, moss green, and white specks.There are some imperfections and air bubbled along the body of the vase. The vase's exterior lip is ringed in dark red and the interior of the vase's lip is ringed with dark green. The vase's interior is unglazed.