Cup or Goblet

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cup or Goblet (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 3 1/8 × 4 3/16 in. (8 × 10.6 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.2861.2008
  • Work Type cup
  • Classification Containers

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Bow porcelain goat and kid facing each other. The goat has brown patches and is standing while the kid painted with dark gray patches in sitting. The scroll base is painted in burgundy strokes and decorated with green foliage and white flowers.
Porcelain figure of a lioness with a tan coat, a grey nose, chartreuse-green eyes and an open mouth revealing an iron-red tongue, with a raised right forepaw, a cub beneath her breast, semi-recumbent on a mound base applied with yellow florettes and green leaves, mounted on a gilt bronze rococo scrollwork base.
Urn-shaped creamware vase with two ear-shaped handles and long neck (the cover is missing), glazed light brown with a band of yellow around the foot, each of the reserves, on either side of the handles, at the shoulder, and neck, each band is outlined in red; on either side of the body is a central oval reserve, each decorated with the image of a winged cherub, on one side partially draped and sitting in a landscape with fruit, on the other aloft in a blue cloudy sky with a dove, each handle terminates in a female mask.
Large creamware Liverpool-type jug with beak spout and loop handle, transfer-printed in black with on one side an image of the Death of General Wolfe after Benjamin West and on the other a naval engagement featuring two ships at full mast above a drum and British flag and the initials GR in a reserve.