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Wedgwood

  • Titles Bin Label (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 3 x 5 7/16 x 1/8 in. (7.6 x 13.8 x 0.3 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.3717.2008
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Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of William III (1650-1702) facing right, William III was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Son of William II of Orange and Mary daugher of Charles I. the English Princess Royal. As a Protestant, William III participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic king of France, Louis XIV, in coalition with Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe. When James II attempted to restore the Roman Catholic religion, alienated his people, William and his wife were invited to take his place. William landed near Torbay in 1688 and James quickly fled to France where he sought protection of Louis XIV.
Horizontal oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief figure of a child sitting by a basket of fruit, set in brass frame with ring
Salad fork with handle of dark blue jasper with white relief decoration in a pattern of acanthus leaves and small floral motifs, a small floral motif at the tip, the stem and handle of silver plate.
Covered sugar bowl of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, the conforming cover similarly decorated with button finial.