Bowl

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 4 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (10.8 x 26 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.1254.2011
  • Work Type bowl
  • Classification Containers

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Small, oblong, octagonal sugar box of white porcelain with gilding, painted with small reserves on the sides with Chinoiserie scenes inside (a Chinese figure preparing tea on one side and a Chinese figure with a bird and cage on the other), "indianische Blumen" are scattered over the rest of the box, the cover likewise painted with Chinese figures, one with bells, the other preparing tea, with wide gilt and scrollwork borders as well as a Chinese-inspired floral border, the finial in the shape of a pagoda.
Candlestick, on a round, domed base, the tapered and square, columnar stem with panpipe, horn, amulet, and foliate motif on each side; the candle socket is in the form of a Janus head.
The figure of Pierrette standing on a rocaille base with pierced and gilded scrolls, the base decorated with small applied flowers with green leaves, Pierrette wears a costume in white consisting of a full skirt and a laced bodice trimmed in blue with iron red, with a ruffle collar tied with a lilac bow, her white apron trimmed in iron red, on her head a white tricorn hat with blue edging and flower, both hands are lowered to her apron and she stands with left leg behind and leaning slightly left as if in movement, her shoes are blue with gilt buckles
This teardrop-shaped custard cup or dessert pot is made from a fine sheet of moulded yellow jasper which has been decorated with a crenellated edge and the ornamentation of a fine white jasper lattice or trellis design. It was made between 1790 and 1800.