Lot Essay
Cf. Robin Reilly, Wedgwood (London, 1989), Vol. 1, p. 114, pl. 69 for an image of the original Wedgwood design by William Hackwood
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CIRCA 1790, IMPRESSED MARK TO REVERSE
Details
A Turner's oval stoneware anti-slavery medallion
CIRCA 1790, IMPRESSED MARK TO REVERSE
Modelled after William Hackwood's original design for Wedgwood, depicting a brown-jasper scantily-draped slave wearing a blue loin-cloth, kneeling on a section of rocky ground chained to his ankles and wrists, reserved on a white-jasper ground titled AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?, mounted in copper (cracked and restuck)
1½ in. (3.8 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1790, IMPRESSED MARK TO REVERSE
Modelled after William Hackwood's original design for Wedgwood, depicting a brown-jasper scantily-draped slave wearing a blue loin-cloth, kneeling on a section of rocky ground chained to his ankles and wrists, reserved on a white-jasper ground titled AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?, mounted in copper (cracked and restuck)
1½ in. (3.8 cm.) wide
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