Bough Pots with Inserts

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bough Pots with Inserts (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium caneware with blue jasper relief
  • Dimensions each pot: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (21 x 16.5 cm) each insert: 1/4 x 5 1/16 in. (0.6 x 12.9 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.562.2011.1a-b-.2a-b
  • Work Type pots with inserts
  • Classification Containers

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Large, footed bowl of stoneware covered with a matte black glaze with striated lines from midsection to rim on the exterior.
Vase of enameled caneware in the form of six bamboo poles of varying heights on an irregular green mossy ground, the bamboo poles highlighted in blue and white to emphasize the natural joints and foliage of the bamboo plant, the interiors are glazed.
Bust in profile right with drapery.
Cream jug 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, with loop handle that is angled at the top, and elongated spout.