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Wedgwood

  • Titles Buttons (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium jasperware and metal
  • Dimensions each: 1/2 in. (1.3 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.2797.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type buttons
  • Classification Costume

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Large, lumpy teapot of lead-glazed earthenware (creamware) in the shape of a knobby and knotty tree stump with a crabstock handle and slightly elongated crabstock spout, the body molded with a serious of knots and a surface designed to look like moss, with leaves and berries in relief, the cover with a knop in the form of a twisted branch, the teapot covered with metal oxide colors in shades of beige, brown and green.
Large covered wine, or water, jug of black basalt decorated with red and white enamel, with bulbous body on plain round foot with a band of dots and dashes at the lower body, at the shoulder a band of stylized anthemion motifs in red and white below a band of small white dots, with long neck and beak spout, curved handle edged in red, the conforming cover with red leafy motifs with white berries and ball finial, the interior glazed.
Square dark green jasper plaque with white relief of Psyche wounded and bound by Cupids.
Plain creamware fruit basket and stand, both with a molded basket weave design in the well, the basket with open woven sides and a double woven band entwining the edge, the stand with pierced latticework rim, and both basket and stand trimmed in yellow and brown enamel.