Base

Wedgwood

  • Titles Base (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 4 x 3 3/4 in. Diam. (10.2 x 9.5 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.819.2012
  • Work Type base
  • Classification Containers

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Small snuff bottle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration with on one side the arms of the City of Hanley (UK) and the name HANLEY in a banner below, on either side a goat's head mask.
Mercury
Covered urn of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white and light blue jasper relief decoration, the square plinth with anthemion motifs all around, the urn on round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the stem with acanthus leaves, the lower body engine turned in a checkerboard pattern with white squares and green ones, with applied light blue quatrefoils in the white squares, the main body decorated with the Dancing Hours below a band of festoons, with two scrolled handles, the shoulder and neck with acanthus leaves, the cover with ball finial.
In the shape of a stylized rosette with a female mask in the center.