Beaker

Wedgwood

  • Titles Beaker (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (7.9 x 7.9 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.948.2008
  • Work Type beaker
  • Classification Containers

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) facing left. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; only child of the Duke Of Kent and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe Coburg; born at Kensington Palace, 1819. She was crowned in 1838, and in 1840 married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by whom she had nine children. Victoria had strong likes and dislikes among the politicians of the day, and although she was, on the whole, a constitutional sovereign, she retained a keen appreciation of her own powers.
Small stand of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration in a pattern of intersecting zigzag lines around the edge, with a shallow well, resting on three bun feet.
Round blue jasper cameo with white relief scene of Cupid masked, set in heavy brass frame with ring
Bust in profile left.