Cup and Saucer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cup and Saucer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions cup: 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in. (6.4 x 11.4 x 9 cm) saucer: 1 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (3.2 x 14 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.317.2009.1-.2
  • Work Type cup and saucer
  • Classification Containers

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Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Small statuette of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe standing in full figure on small, flat, square base, wearing trousers and long, buttoned frock coat, open at the neck and with scarf, his left hand on his hip, his right hand holding a book.
Small, delicate, finely modeled porcelain teapot in the form of on one side a dandy with bangs, long red hair, and a moustache, wearing a kind of pink artist's cap, his head tilted slightly right, his large collar bound with a loose pink tie over a smartly tailored green suit, with a large yellow sunflower on his left breast, his left arm bent and resting on his hip, forming the teapot's handle, his right arm slightly outstretched and bent at the elbow, with his right hand limp and pointed downward, forming the spout; on the other side, the teapot is in the form of a woman sporting a similar hairstyle, her hair also red, wearing a large white ruffled collar, a similar cap on her head, and a large white lily on her right breast over her fitted, green smocked gown, in opposition to her companion, it is her right arm that is bent to form the handle and her left arm is outstretched and bent at the elbow to form the spout; the head is removable, forming the cover, with a band of gilding around the foot.
A decorative, trellised border above with crossed hammer and gad and a miner with gad in right hand and a lantern in his left; below scrolling ornament and implements of the foundry trade.