Creamer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Creamer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 3 3/4 x 6 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (9.5 x 16.2 x 8.9 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.558.2008
  • Work Type creamer
  • Classification Containers

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Today a part of the Harzgerode (Saxony-Anhalt).
Oval box with pink raised floral design.
Squat, urn-shaped silver covered sugar bowl resting on a square base that is decorated with bright-cut engraving in a pattern of floral motifs at the corners and bands of squiggly dots between, the round, pierced foot decorated with stylized floral elements in roundels, the body with a pierced middle section in a repetitive geometric pattern that mirrors the decoration on the foot, the upper body engraved with empty circular reserves and leafy and dot swag motifs, the neck with a pierced wavescroll band below a beaded edge, the elongated, domed cover likewise engraved on the inverted shoulder with bands of repeating dots, scallops, and ovals, with small urn finial.
Vase of solid white jasper with light blue jasper dip in the form of a ruined Etruscan urn on a small square plinth, the vase modeled to appear as though recently excavated with damage in the form of cracks and crumbling edges and with scattered bits of lichen, the square plinth with a pattern of scrolling foliage in white relief against a light blue ground, the foot of the vase is fluted and the main body is decorated with various classical figures in white relief against a light blue ground, the upper edge of the vase is irregular, as though weathered and damaged, and with a large leafy element hanging from the side.