Covered Urn

Wedgwood

1770-1780

  • Titles Covered Urn (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (black basalt)
  • Dimensions 11 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (29.8 x 17.1 x 17.1 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.3176.2008a-b
  • Work Type urn with cover
  • Classification Containers

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Large, free-form "headless duck" sculpture
One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. America: the figure of a male Caribbean native child with red skin wearing a colorful feathered costume and headdress and carrying a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder, his left hand holds a bow, under his right foot and resting against a stump decorated with flowers is a small green caiman with open mouth.
Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with applied green, lilac and white jasper relief decoration, the cup of cylindrical shape with a band of green acanthus leaves around the bottom, the main body with garlands of green ivy leaves with lilac berries and small medallions suspended from the joinings of the garlands, each lilac medallion with a small white flying cupid in relief, with a leafy vine running around the top of the cup below the lip, with leaf-molded handle, the saucer with like garlands around the rim and a band of acanthus leaves around the inner well.
Rectangular blue jasperware half plaque featuring a putto, figure from the domestic employment series and other classical figures. a later copy of a Wedgwood plaque