Tablet “A Sacrifice”

Wedgwood

20th century

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Oval medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief with a scene from the "Domestic Employment" series, a seated woman reading and a small child playing with a doll on the floor, mounted in a gilt-bronze frame.
Cast-iron statuette of Napoleon I Bonaparte standing with his left leg casually bent, his left hand in his coat and his right hand at his side, wearing the uniform of a French general with bicorn hat and long open coat, a sword at his left hip, the statuette resting on a tall, square plinth with rectangular base decorated with anthemion motifs.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior base was first glazed a mustard/khaki color that is mostly covered by brushes of dark and light brown glaze, most prominent around the center of the vase. There are splotchy areas of brown o nthe upper half the vase. Around the vase's lip and its base are rings of brown glaze. The exterior has impressed, horizontal lines around the vase's form, irregular in both size and placement on the form. The vase's interior and lip are glazed dark green, with a dripping glaze in the interior.
Covered jar of creamy, glazed stoneware of cylindrical shape with an indented band around the main body about one-third down from the top with which to grip the jar, the lower body truncated to form a narrower foot, the recessed, flat cover with mushroom finial, the entire jar covered with an irregular, mottled glaze in shades of green, brown and beige, the cover with a uniform tan glaze.