Tray

Wedgwood

1790-1810

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Oval basalt medallion with portrait of David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936) born in Nantwich Stapeley he grew to become a important Royal Navy officer fighting in the Madhist war and the Boxer Rebellion and later becoming the commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. He was awarded many high ranking medals and became a Member of the Order of Merit and given the title of Earl Beatty in 1919.
Octagonal vase with clipped shoulder and flared lip, made of creamy beige, smooth stoneware covered on the interior with a mottled brown glaze and on the exterior with a clear glaze that allows the color of the clay to show through, each of the eight panels on the body decorated with brown glaze in a pattern of stylized leafy motifs.
Oval plaque of black basalt depicting Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion.
Oval black basalt intaglio with portrait of Homer on square plinth