Jug

Wedgwood

  • Titles Jug (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 5 1/4 x 7 x 5 1/4 in. (13.3 x 17.8 x 13.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.710.2012
  • Work Type jug
  • Classification Containers

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Bust in profile right.
Self-framed oval plaque of black basalt molded in relief illustrating the attack on Niobe, a mortal of royal blood and mother of seven sons and seven daughters, and her children, on the lower left a group of young women cringe and cover themselves as they attempt to flee Artemis and Apollo on clouds above attacking them with bows and arrows at the direction of their mother, the demi-goddess Leto, while an older woman, Niobe, with a small child on her lap rests on a rocky surface, as one of the young women tries to help her up, on the right male riders fall to the rocks from their horses in fatal agony.
Cup and matching saucer of white porcelain decorated with applied sprays of prunus blossoms in the manner of blanc-de-chine, the saucer with raised center rim to accommodate the cup with its raised base, the cup with twig handle.
Small round button comprised of a dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Perseus and Andromeda – Andromeda steps down from the rock, her left hand is supported by Perseus – in a cut-steel mount with gadrooned border, with eye on back.