Bowls

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowls (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 1 1/2 x 8 in. (3.8 x 20.3 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.4173.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type bowls
  • Classification Containers

See More of the Collection

Bust in profile left with helmet.
Round covered sugar bowl modeled to look like a cauliflower, the bowl with overlapping leaves and stem glazed green, the domed cover resembling the white florets, with cauliflower finial (the cover is not original to the bowl).
Tall vase of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of urn shape on a square plinth with truncated corners and decorated with stiff leaf motifs all around, the round foot engine-turned and with a band of white beading, the lower body with white stiff leaf motifs and the upper body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series, including women and children in conversation and at play with a dog and birds in a landscape with trees, around the shoulder a band of white jasper overlapping laurel leaves and berries, the two twisted handles terminate in lion masks, the neck is engine-turned and has a band of white beading below the lip, the cover is a wood replacement.
Egg-shaped tri-color jasper (dark blue, green, and white) perfume bottle with white relief figures on green panels on each side, neck broken and cap missing