Coffee Biggin

Wedgwood

  • Titles Coffee Biggin (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • 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.3270.2008a-d
  • Work Type pot
  • Classification Containers

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Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Marius facing left (157 BC-86 BC) Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Holding office of consul and unprecedented seven times during his career. Also noted for his important reforms of Roman armies, authorizing recruitment of landless citizens and reorganizing the structure of legions into separare cohorts. Marius defeated the invading Germani tribes for which he was called "the third founder of Rome." His life and career were significant in the transformation of Rome from Republic to Empire.
Large, heavy beer pump handle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with on one side the muse Thalia, muse of comedy, and on the other the muse Melpomene, muse of tragedy, between them are dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs.
Paperweight with a sleeping Cupid with a bow and arrows modeled in high relief on a rectangular base.
Small teapot of cylindrical shape of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, with ear-shaped, leaf-molded handle and straight spout with applied leaf and berry motifs at the terminal and floral garlands at the tip, around the lower body a band of overlapping acanthus leaves with delicate shading, the main body engine-turned to create checkerboard pattern of alternating white and lilac squares with small applied green jasper quatrefoils in the white squares, below the shoulder a band of leafy vines, the conforming, flat cover with same checkerboard pattern and ball finial with a band of like checkerboard motifs, the interior unglazed and with strainer.