Bowls

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowls (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • 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.4152.2008.1-.5
  • Object Name bowls
  • Classification Containers

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Small, slender, heavily engraved silver sugar tongs the arms straight and decorated with bright cut engraving in a repeating pattern of floral and leafy motifs, the pointed wells with cross hatching, with an oval reserve designed for a monogram (left empty) between cross hatching and leafy elements.
Obverse: A young man attempting to catch the fleeing Chronos (with bill hook). Reverse: A figure being carried by the winged Chronos.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of William III (1650-1702) facing right, William III was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Son of William II of Orange and Mary daugher of Charles I. the English Princess Royal. As a Protestant, William III participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic king of France, Louis XIV, in coalition with Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe. When James II attempted to restore the Roman Catholic religion, alienated his people, William and his wife were invited to take his place. William landed near Torbay in 1688 and James quickly fled to France where he sought protection of Louis XIV.
Square black jasper plaque with white relief of Terpsichore, the muse of choral dance is represented holding a lyre and plectrum, lab trial