Base

Wedgwood

  • Titles Base (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 4 3/4 x 4 in. (12.1 x 10.2 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.3850.2008
  • Work Type base
  • Classification Containers

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Round box with miniature on top surrounded by rhinestones around inner and outer edges.
Round dinner plate of white porcelain decorated with elaborate gilt scrolls around the rim and with scattered flowers and sheafs of wheat reminiscent of the Kakiemon style in the well, in the center decorated with the quartered Arms of Saxony and Poland centered with the small crest of the Saxon Electorate showing crossed swords, within a crowned escutcheon.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of tree of the Bacchanalian Boys, at left a tree with handled ewer beneath it and a group of five figures, a seated satyr holding a grapevine, two young boys supporting the infant Bacchus with a grapevine crown and staff, and a boy kneeling with a basket of grapes, all on a thin ground that extends the length of the panel.
Coffee biggin of solid white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the coffee pot of bulbous shape with loop handle and curved spout, the body with applied white lattice work and vignettes of classical figures, the strainer that sits atop the pot of cylindrical shape and likewise decorated with lattice work motifs and classical figures, the conforming cover similarly decorated with lattice work and small classical vignettes, including the Cupid Seller and Priam Begging Achilles for the Body of Hector, with Sybil finial, the interior of the pot is glazed.