Snuff Box

Wedgwood and Bentley

About 1778

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Small bulb pot of white stoneware covered with an opaque variegated agate glaze in shades of brown, beige, green and yellow, below the lip a band of gilded fret work, the fitted insert cover with two fitments to hold bulbs and two smaller air holes, both the interior of the pot and underside of the cover are glazed black.
Orestes and Pylades, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a glass paste by Nathaniel Marchant, cast iron
Large, rectangular porcelain platter of white porcelain with underglaze blue decoration, with truncated corners and hand modelled border of exotic shells of various sizes in high relief, in the center well the hand-painted image of Black civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, being set upon by police and dogs on May 3, 1963, after Andy Warhol's screen print "Race Riot" made after the incident in 1964, the space on either side of the main image filled in solid blue.
Oval dark blue jasper cypher, back variegated light and dark blue zig-zags