Bowls

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bowls (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 2 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (6 x 26 x 13 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.4191.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type bowls
  • Classification Containers

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Pair of earthenware bookends, Keith Murray shape 3944, with a black glaze. The bookends are formed by a weighty right-angled base. Within the angle is a curving, double-stepped form, slightly less wide than the main block, and decorated with five concave grooves.
Small snuff bottle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on one side the figure in white relief of Cupid with a bird as allegory of fall from a series of the seasons, on either side a goat's head mask.
Lilac, blue, and white
Oval medallion of black basalt with bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-37 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name TIBERIUS impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.