Bust of Paris

Wedgwood

  • Titles Bust of Paris (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (black basalt)
  • Dimensions 17 x 11 1/4 x 11 in. (43.2 x 28.6 x 27.9 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.1236.2011
  • Work Type bust
  • Classification Sculpture

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Oval black basalt medallion with relief scene of Sacrifice
Vase with a cylindrical form that flares out to a flat ridge, then tapers in and has a flared lip. The vase's exterior is decorated with alternating areas of brown and beige, with the bottom brown area decorated with dark brown spots. The middle of the vase's exterior is decorated with horizontal thin, impressed lines that appear almost scratched into the form. There are similar impressed lines around the lip of the vase, under the ridge, and along the base. The vase's interior is glazed dark green but the glaze does not continue to the bottom of the vase.
Jug of black basalt with encaustic painting, derived from the Greek "oenochoe" form, the foot and body above the shoulder and neck are engine turned, the main body with an image of Daedalus building his wings below a tear drop border that extends around the body below the shoulder, with red trim around the lip and stem and a band of beading around the upper neck.
Half figure seated right, the head front.