Cup and Saucer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cup and Saucer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions cup: 2 5/8 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (6.7 x 8.9 x 6.4 cm) saucer: 3/4 x 5 3/16 in. (1.9 x 13.2 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.504.2012.1-.2
  • Work Type cup and saucer
  • Classification Containers

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Solid light blue jasper cup and saucer with applied lilac and white relief decoration, cylindrical in shape and decorated with applied lilac medallions containing flying cupids, and white relief including heavy fruiting festoons terminating at ram's heads, ribbons, classical vignettes and trophies, with floral motifs around the lower body and below the lip a trail of leafy ivy vines, with leaf-molded handle, the saucer similarly decorated.
Figure of the poet John Milton standing at a podium on a rectangular base in contemporary dress with drapery, holding in his left hand a scroll upon which a text from his "Paradise Lost" in gilt reading, " ....just and righteous. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
Rectangular black basalt intaglio with figure Erato
Small covered urn of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied green and white jasper relief decoration, resting on square plinth with leafy motifs on the sides, the round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves, the lower body with thickly molded, stylized acanthus leaves, the main body with a small green oval medallion on each side set within a beaded border, on one Aesculapius and Hygeia and on the other a seated classical figure with its head resting on its left hand, the neck fluted and twisted with stiff leaf motifs below the lip, the lip itself decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves, the two handles in the shape of ram's heads, the cover with ball finial.