Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with glazed interior

Vase

David Puxley, Wedgwood

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One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. America: the figure of a male Caribbean native child with red skin wearing a colorful feathered costume and headdress and carrying a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder, his left hand holds a bow, under his right foot and resting against a stump decorated with flowers is a small green caiman with open mouth.
Radiant bust almost front, slightly left, the head in profile left.
Head in profile left.
Obverse: The conjoined busts of King Friedrick Wilhelm III (1773-1840; 1797 King) and Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810) in profile left on a pedestal decorated with oak leaves. Reverse: Goddess of Nature seated while a winged genius of the mining industry lifts her veil, lions lie at her feet.