Porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- United States; Pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
This statuette is fifteen inches high, and is identical in dress and
figure with the statuette of Franklin, No. 46, save that the head of
Washington is covered with white powdered hair or a white wig, instead
of the dark natural locks that grace the Franklin statuette. The head
and face only are colored, though the buttons, buckles, and coat
ornaments or frogs are gilded. It seems rather unjust in Enoch Wood to
put the head of Washington on Franklin’s extremely rotund body. In the
right hand of the figure is a scroll with vague lettering, and under the
left arm a cocked hat. I know of but one of these statuettes with the
Washington head; it is in the Huntington Collection.
25. Washington. Statuette. Badin Frères.
This French statuette is about ten inches in height. Washington is
dressed in a yellow coat and blue waistcoat, and carries a scroll marked
“Patria.” By his side is an American eagle crowing over a broken tablet
painted with a picture of the British lion. On the pedestal in gilt
letters, “Badin Frères, D’leurs, à Paris.” Specimen in the Huntington
Collection.
26. Washington. Statuette. Badin Frères.
Statuette of glazed pottery. Washington has his foot on a thoroughly
subdued British lion and the British flag. He carries in his hand a
scroll with word “Independence.” Specimen in the Huntington Collection.
The face of this statuette (as well as that of the preceding one, No.
25) bears more of a likeness to the Rembrandt Peale portrait of
Washington than to any other.
27. Washington. Parian Pitcher.
An embossed full figure of Washington on a Parian pitcher in the
Huntington Collection. Also designs of flags and spread eagles.
28. Washington. Bust. Ralph Wood.
Number G. 367, in the Catalogue of the Museum of Practical Geology in
London. It is thus described:
“Bust of Washington, 10 inches high, in plain cream-colored ware, with
impressed mark Ra. Wood, Burslem.” Ralph Wood, whose name is stamped on
this piece, was the father of Aaron Wood and grandfather of Enoch Wood.
29. Washington. Relief Portrait. Dresden.
Profile portrait of Washington in relief, gilded, on _bleu de roi_
ground. On other side similar relief portrait of Franklin. In front an
American eagle. Dresden mark. One may be seen in the Trumbull-Prime
Collection.
30. Washington. Medallion. Dresden.
Dresden china cup and saucer, gilded without and within. On the cup a
blue oval medallion with exquisite head in white relief of profile
portrait of George Washington. This beautiful piece is owned by Mrs.
Nealy, of Washington, D. C.
31. Washington. Bust.
A bust of Washington in cream-colored oily pottery. It is about four
inches in height and is one of a set comprising busts of Clay, Webster,
Calhoun, Lafayette, Franklin, etc. I think the date of manufacture was
about 1850. They are common in America. Specimens may be seen in the
Huntington Collection.
32. Washington. Mirror Knob.
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