A Wedgwood Jasperware portrait plaque of Charles Fox late 18th/early 19th century

A Wedgwood Jasperware portrait plaque of Charles Fox late 18th/early 19th century, applied with a head and shoulders portrait of the politician after his portrait by Joshua Reynolds, in white on a pale blue ground, impressed mark and incised Fox to the reverse, in a glazed wood frame, 18.3cm overall.

Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger, a prominent Whig statesman with a notorious private life, famed for womanising, drinking and gambling.

Provenance: from the estate of the late Christopher Sheppard.