Cup and Saucer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cup and Saucer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions cup: 2 1/2 x 4 x 3 in. (6.4 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm) saucer: 1 x 5 1/4 in. (2.5 x 13.3 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.3849.2008a-b
  • Work Type cup and saucer
  • Classification Containers

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Light blue and white jasper kettle, the lower body engine-turned to create a pattern of stripes, the main body decorated with white relief with on one side Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other with figures from the Domestic Employment series, on the shoulder are stylized reeds and floral elements, the neck is raised and scalloped and the cover sits inside it, the cover likewise engine-turned and with a pattern of stiff leaf motifs and beading emanating from the conforming ball knop, the relatively straight spout is molded with overlapping leaves, the bail handle is comprised of silver and wood.
Bust in profile right.