Candlesticks

Wedgwood

  • Titles Candlesticks (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • 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.2986.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type candlesticks
  • Classification Containers

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Trophy plate of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, with a central vignette of the Muses Grooming Pegasus surrounded by scrolled ribbon and vine banding, the border with floral festoons terminating at ram's heads, trophies and small figural cameos with classical subjects, with a band of florets around the rim.
Oval basalt self framed medallion with profile portrait of the famed mathmetician and scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) facing right.
Wedgwood bone china and metal flower brooch with three yellow flowers against a black leaves
Covered urn of solid white jasperware with slightly irregular light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, of calyx krater shape, resting on a square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs around the sides, the round foot with applied white egg and dart motifs and fluting, with egg and dart motifs on the protruding stem, the lower body with gadrooning and two stout, molded handles, the main body with applied white jasper figures of the Muses, with an overhanging lip decorated with egg and dart motifs and a band of laurel leaves and berries, under the overhanging lip is a band of grape vines, the conforming cover with acanthus leaf and lotus motifs and teardrop finial.