Bust of Josiah Wedgwood

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bust of Josiah Wedgwood (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (black basalt)
  • Dimensions 19 x 10 1/2 x 9 in. (48.3 x 26.7 x 22.9 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.3260.2008
  • Work Type bust
  • Classification Sculpture

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Iron worker with tools and products of the Neusalz foundry.
Bust slightly left.
Figure modeled after the statuette of Vischer on the Sebaldus Tomb in the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg.
Radiant bust front.