Bead

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bead (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium jasperware
  • Dimensions 9/16 x 5/8 in. (1.4 x 1.6 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.993.2011
  • Work Type bead
  • Classification Costume

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D-shaped bulb pot of modified bombé form with gilded bands at top and bottom and repeating pattern of gold against white. In the middle a hand-painted landscape in monochrome purple against a green base. Landscape with river scene, trees, men fishing at a gushing water fall, above this an antique temple, in the distance cows in a pasture and people.
Large creamware meat platter with shell edge highlighted in deep cobalt blue, around the well motifs from the Mared pattern, with conforming creamware drainer covered with a pearl glaze, pierced with stylized leafy motifs and groupings and with elements from the Mared pattern around the edge and central hole.
Round green jasper medallion with white relief of Cupid sharpening his arrows Cupid also known as Eros or Amor, The god of Love, he is often seen portrayed with a bow and arrows in order to strike with his 'cupid's darts.
Oval dark blue jasper dip front and back with polishing to sides cameo with white relief of A sacrifice to Hygeia