Cup

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cup (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 2 1/2 x 4 5/8 x 3 13/16 in. (6.4 x 11.7 x 9.7 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.4109.2008
  • Work Type cup
  • Classification Containers

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Obverse: The figure of Fortune standing on a wheel in the sea holding a sail with the motto "FRONTE CAPILLATA EST," in the background a sailboat and coastal landscape. (Reverse is blank.)
Oval dark blue jasper plaque with white relief scene depicting Pygmalion creating the statue that is eventually brought to life by Aphrodite.
Urn-shaped vase of solid white jasper with yellow jasper dip and applied black jasper relief decoration, on round foot decorated with acanthus leaves and lotus motifs which extend up to the lower body, the shoulder with a band of ribbon and stick and another of ivy leaves, the overhanging lip with a band of overlapping acanthus leaves.