Creamer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Creamer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium old bone china
  • Dimensions 3 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (8.9 x 13.7 x 6 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.4035.2008
  • Work Type creamer
  • Classification Containers

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Cast iron plate with a wide, pierced outer border of scrolling foliage and swans, the well with a central sunflower surrounded by larger petal-like motifs
Round dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of King George III (1738-1820) facing right. He is shown in profile wearing a laurel wreath like a Roman Emperor. He was married to Queen Charlotte after whom Wedgwood's Queen's ware was so named in her honour.
Small chamberstick of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration, the saucer with an outer band of overlapping leaves and in the well a circular pattern of stylized acanthus leaves, the candleholder is blue and white striped and has a series of garlands around the neck, the loop handle of white jasper and with a thumbrest in the form of an acanthus leaf.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Claudius (11 BC-54 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name CLAUDIUS impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.