Cheese Mold

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cheese Mold (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 4 1/4 x 9 x 6 1/4 in. (10.8 x 22.9 x 15.9 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.3371.2008
  • Work Type mold
  • Classification Containers

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Oval blue jasper Nicolo intaglio with black scene of the "Conquered Province"
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is a mixture of multiple colors throughout - light and dark brown, dark green, black, and the color of the unglazed stoneware. The dark glaze begins near the middle of the vase, continuing downward to the bottom of the thistle form and pooling in drips and continuing towards the bottom of the vase. The vase's exterior features thin lines impressed horizontally into the form. The lines are irregularly spaced throughout the vase, occuring mostly at the top of the vase, on the bottom half of the thistle form, and the bottom of the cylindrical base. The vase's lip is mostly dark brown and unglazed stoneware. The vase's interior is unglazed stoneware with thin, raised lines circling the form that correspond in placement with the impressed lines on the exterior.
Tall, elongated, pear-shaped silver coffeepot on round, molded foot with double C-scroll ivory handle and hinged, double-domed lid with pinecone finial, the curved spout with applied shell-like motifs, on one side of the main body in bright-cut engraving within an oval reserve comprised of leafy motifs a coat of arms (possibly of the Irish branch of the Judge family) hanging from a tied ribbon, outside the reserve two bound branches (one laurel, one possibly palm), above a badge with a seated Irish Wolfhound.