Covered Tripod Urn

Wedgwood

About 1785-1795

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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.
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