ALEXANDRIA, VA. — One of the highlights seen in six sales conducted by Potomack Company over four days September 28-October 1 was a Wedgwood Fairyland lustre rectangular plaque titled “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of.” Offered as part of the 321-lot sale of the Jeffery Milkins Wedgwood Collection on September 30, the 15¼-by-11-inch plaque had been designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones, circa 1930. Previously in the Philadelphia collection of Muriel Polikoff, the plaque had been exhibited in 1984 at the Hammond Museum in North Salem, N.Y., and the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in 2009-10. Estimated at $8/12,000, it ultimately sold to a private collector from Virginia, whose dreams of owning it came true, for $28,575.

According to Potomack Company’s owner and chief executive officer, Elizabeth Haynie Wainstein, driving the price on the plaque was its large size, striking composition and a pattern that was made in very small quantities.

Additional highlights from the Milkins Collection, and Potomack’s other sales, will be featured in an extensive sale recap in a future issue.