Culinary Mold

Staffordshire, England

About 1750

  • Titles Culinary Mold (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium salt-glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions 1 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. Diam. (4.4 × 7.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.170.1998
  • Work Type mold
  • Classification Containers

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Pair of black basalt Greek sphinxes recumbent on rectangular bases, each with molded breast plates and saddles, with female heads wearing diadems, the tails curved around their backs.
Chocolate color
Laureate head in profile right.
Urn of black basalt on thick, square plinth decorated with bands of palmettes, with round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the otherwise plain, urn-shaped body with exaggerated leafy garlands with clusters of berries where they meet, in the center on one side a molded medallion with the Three Graces, with two pistol handles that terminate in leafy spreads, the neck and shoulder fluted and with a band of beading around the lip, the cover a facsimile.