Covered Vase

Wedgwood

  • Titles Covered Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Victoria ware
  • Dimensions 7 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (17.8 x 6.4 x 5.7 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.3820.2008a-b
  • Work Type vase with cover
  • Classification Containers

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Tall, bottle-shaped potpourri vase, of white stoneware covered with a blue glaze and a clear pearl glaze, the main body with a pattern of blue and white stripes below a blue band with molded white swags hanging from ribbons, below this a band of beading and above a band of checkerboard pattern, with two covers, one with flat shoulder and pierced with eight large and eight smaller holes, with long striped neck, the other a small, domed, stripped cover with ball finial is a facsimile.
Small cast-iron pocket watch holder on octagonal base with an oval surface with beaded edge and designed to look like the ripples on water, the stem comprised of two intertwined, scaly, dolphin-like sea creatures whose tails extend up to support the holder for the pocket watch, this in the form of a shell with wavy edges and a central round opening with beaded border, the back of the holder with a row of leaves that form a support for the watch.
Bust slightly left.
Round dark Portland blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portraits of Harry and Nettie Buten, set in gold as pendant with gold chain necklace