Bough Pot

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bough Pot (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 6 x 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (15.2 x 21.6 x 12.1 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.830.2010
  • Work Type pot
  • Classification Containers

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Bust in profile left in French civil servant's uniform with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Large rectangular tablet of solid white jasper with dark chocolate brown jasper dip and white jasper relief decoration depicting Orestes and Pylades at the Temple of Diana, with the priestess Iphigenia, including a simple pillared temple in the center containing a shrine with the figure of Diana on a pedestal and a small altar, on the right of the temple the priestess Iphigenia stands in front of the shrine, turning back to Orestes and Pylades who stand bound and guarded by a figure wearing a Phrygian cap, on the left Iphigenia gives a letter to Orestes and Pylades, who are now freed, while a figure holding a shield aloft stands behind her.
Small cast-iron stick pin, the finial in the form of a central oval medallion supported by two palm fronds, the medallion with the image of Cupid and Psyche.
Half figure seated right, the head front.