Toft tray outside parchment glaze inside crackled grey and maroon

Tray

Norman Wilson, Wedgwood

20th century

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Large rectangular tablet of white jasper with Dysart green jasper dip with two floral swags supported by leopard heads and ribbons with a trophy hanging in the center
One of a pair of tall cream colored pearlware vases decorated in enamel colors and partially gilt the gold a dark brownish color the small square base with a row of stylized anthemion motifs highlighted in gold the foot with a border in a modified egg and dart pattern likewise picked out in gold and the lower body of the urn shaped vase with stylized individually molded acanthus leaves outlined in gold the main body of each vase is painted in the round with different delicate and very detailed seascapes that both show a gray and blue cloudy almost stormy sky over a choppy turquoise blue sea each scene includes a variety of ships with billowing sails as well as groups of sailors in small row boats attempting to land ashore through rough foamy waves the sea also includes debris from the ships floating in the water above each central scene is a band of overlapping leaves highlighted in gold and the slender neck includes stylized foliate motifs outlined in gold and a band of beading around the lip on each vase the two tall slender partially gilt scrolled handles has a slithery gold snake coiled around it the snakes heads rest on the shoulder of the vase
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