Coffee Tray

Wedgwood

  • Titles Coffee Tray (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 1 x 14 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (2.5 x 37.1 x 21 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.4311.2008
  • Work Type tray
  • Classification Containers

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Cup and matching saucer of buff-colored lilac jasper dip, the cup footed and the lower part of the body engine-turned to reveal a lilac and white striped pattern, the upper body with white relief on the lilac ground, the figures drawn from the Domestic Employment series and cupids at play, with a reeded loop handle, the interior of the cup polished; the conforming saucer with similar engine-turned decoration in a lilac and white striped pattern, the edge with a border of applied white acanthus and stiff leaf ornament.
Large rectangular tablet, originally from a mantelpiece, of buff-colored stoneware (artificial stone or Coade stone) decorated in high relief with a bacchanalian scene featuring scantily-clad bacchantes holding water and wine vessels aloft, a flaming torch and ax, a wreath, a faun's head and baskets, with a ram and small putti at their feet, one of which carries a thyrsus, the staff associated with Bacchus and his followers, to the right is a putti satyr and a putti riding on the back of a ram and blowing a horn.
Round plate of creamware with slightly scalloped edge, molded to resemble a cauliflower with the white florets around the edge and the green leaves and stem in the well, the very center left as a white floret.
Rectangular box with hunting scene on the lid.