Bowl

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 2 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. Diam. (6.4 x 14.3 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.3897.2008
  • Work Type bowl
  • Classification Containers

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Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of four putti dancing and playing music, possibly an adaption of Sacrifice to Hymen
Delicate porcelain lithophane in cast-iron holder, the lithophane depicts the scene "Brautwerbung" (Courting the Bride), model number 229 in the Plaue Porcelain Manufactory's Preis-Courant, and shows on the left a young woman seated under a tree chatting with a young man in knickers, who casually leans on a barrel with his legs crossed at the ankles; the lithophane holder with a square base decorated with scrolling foliage and with a smaller square pedestal upon which rests the foot of the lithophane comprised of leafy foliage, the stem of the lithophane in the form of a column that is enveloped by stylized acanthus fronds, the frame above, which can be removed from the stem, is rectangular and rests on two scrolling, leafy vines which emanate from the stem, with pierced leafy motifs on either side and the top with pierced, scrolling decoration and a shell-like finial.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Small brooch or buckle comprised of a round, white jasper medallion with dark blue dip and white jasper bas relief of a seated classical warrior, possibly Achilles, set in a cut-steel mount of pointed oval shape and adorned with faceted cut-steel beads around the medallion, which are then set in a semi-random pattern, the downward turned edges engraved in a simple pattern of graduated upside-down V’s.