Stick pin comprised of a small round medallion of solid light blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of Hope with an anchor, framed in a gold beaded and ropework mount, with long gold pin.

Stick Pin “Hope”

Wedgwood

1790-1820

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Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is a mixture of multiple colors throughout - light and dark brown, dark green, black, and the color of the unglazed stoneware. The dark glaze begins near the middle of the vase, continuing downward to the bottom of the thistle form and pooling in drips and continuing towards the bottom of the vase. The vase's exterior features thin lines impressed horizontally into the form. The lines are irregularly spaced throughout the vase, occuring mostly at the top of the vase, on the bottom half of the thistle form, and the bottom of the cylindrical base. The vase's lip is mostly dark brown and unglazed stoneware. The vase's interior is unglazed stoneware with thin, raised lines circling the form that correspond in placement with the impressed lines on the exterior.
Knife handle of solid light blue jasper with white relief decoration in the form of acanthus leaves extending upward from the shank.
Long, delicate silver sugar tongs decorated with bright-cut engraving in a pattern of dashes and leafy motifs, at the curve an oval reserve with the engraved initials I – R, with small cups at each end of the tongs with which to grasp the sugar cubes.
The vase is heavy and has a cylindrical form with a tapered base. The exterior decorated with interspersed dimensional bands. In the center of the vase's body are impressed bands flanking a repeated 's' design imprinted into the form that intersect to create varying shapes. The interior is glazed dark red/plum.