Bowl

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 5 9/16 × 8 13/16 in. (14.1 × 22.4 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.2866.2008
  • Work Type bowl
  • Classification Containers

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Tall creamware beer jug, Keith Murray shape 3844, with yellow matte straw glaze, slightly flared at the base and decorated with a series of six raised bands running horizontally around the body, with small spout and long ear-shaped handle.
Bust.
Frame with decorative, pierced, and scrolling border, in the center against a blue fabric ground the silhouette figure of Gutenberg.
Obverse: Seated Harpocrates with finger to lips, with cornucopia in right hand and dog and owl at feet. Reverse with inscription.