Creamer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Creamer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 2 5/8 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (6.7 x 14 x 7.9 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.715.2011
  • Work Type creamer
  • Classification Containers

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Drawer pull with enameled floral decoration
Small enameled copper scent bottle of tapering flask form with white ground and decorated with floral sprays and gilding, with a gilded lattice pattern at each truncated corner, with gilt metal mounts and stopper in the form of a bird attached with a chain to the mount.
Probably a later cast of the obverse of a medal commemorating the restoration of the Coliseum after 1825.
Covered urn of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, ovoid in shape and resting on a square plinth decorated with palmettes, the round foot with a band of laurel leaves, the body heavily decorated with stylized leafy motifs, arabesques of scrolls, flowers and leaves, and a band of ribbon entwined with ivy leaves, the thick round cover with green dip on both sides, on one a large cupid finial, the other side appears as if it might have originally had some sort of finial also.