Octagonal lustre bowl with bronze exterior and mottled pearlized blue interior fruit designs Four of the eight fields on the outside of the bowl are decorated with larger fruit arrangements a grapes purple glaze a pear orangeyellow glaze leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design b grapes purple glaze two peaches orangeyellow glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design c grapes purple glaze an apricot orangeyellow glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design d grapes purple glaze three mirabelles orangeyellow glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design These designs are alternated with individual fruit designs a a strawberry orangeyellowred glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design b a plum purple glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design c a blackberry purple glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design d an apricot orangeyellowred glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design A rope like pattern decorates the upper rim of the outside of the bowl The inside has a mother of pearl glaze with a geometric gilded pattern along the upper rim of the bowl with a red glaze In the inside there are six individual fruits equally distributed throughout the bowl halfway up the side a a strawberry orangeyellowred glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design b a plum purple glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design c a raspberry orangeyellowred glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design d a plum purple glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design e an apricot orangeyellowred glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design f a plum purple glaze and leaves green glaze gilding used to outline the design The bottom of the bowl is decorated with three large strawberries orangeyellowred glaze leaves green glaze and two strawberry blossoms one green one blue glaze gilding used to outline the design

Bowl

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • 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.2860.2008
  • Object Name bowl
  • Classification Containers

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