Creamer featuring depictions of slave auction and woman and child fleeing

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A pale gray-green creamer with a hinged pewter top. Top has a rim molded around the top of the vessel. On the body of the creamer are two scenes in relief. In one, a woman holding a baby is chased across ice by a man with a whip. In the other, an auction of enslaved persons. Scenes are separated by a depiction of a palm or banana plant. The apex of the handle is modeled into a figure in prayer. Mark on the bottom of the vessel reads [Published by / E. RIDGWAY & ABINGTON, / HANLEY / January 1, 1853].

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