1807 SLAVERY & ABOLITION. Wedgewood Clay Abolitionist Anti-Slavery Pipe.

A very rare survivor, very similar in condition and certainly the same production as that catalogued by the British Museum collection as below.  These are exceptionally rare survivors as they were fragile, by nature of the pipe construction and shape and its' being composed of clay, and by the fact of their everyday usage. We trace no examples in the trade. From the British Museum: "Clay tobacco-pipe bowl, incomplete with damaged spur. Moulded in relief on the left side of the bowl with a figure of an African slave, naked to the waist, kneeling on his left leg, and with chains binding his hands. His hands are raised in front of him, as if imploring the female figure of Liberty, moulded in relief on the right side of the bowl. The incomplete figure of Liberty is represented holding a long staff surmounted by a pilleus, the cap of liberty. The bowl seams on front and back display paired leaf moulding, each pair separated by a shoot or stalk on either side of the bowl. Broken at stem; als