Vases

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vases (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium earthenware (creamware)
  • Dimensions each: 9 5/8 x 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (24.4 x 13.3 x 10.8 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.1139.2011.1-.2
  • Work Type vases
  • Classification Containers

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Sacrifice to Hymen, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a model by John Flaxman, Jr., Based on an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, cast iron
Obverse: A young man attempting to catch the fleeing Chronos (with bill hook). Reverse: A figure being carried by the winged Chronos.
Plaster cast of the Portland Vase taken from the mold that was taken from the original vase from which Josiah Wedgwood made his copies, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware