Cups

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cups (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium creamware
  • Dimensions each: 2 1/2 x 4 7/8 x 4 in. (6.4 x 12.4 x 10.2 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.4020.2008.1-.10
  • Work Type cups
  • Classification Containers

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Bust three-quarters right in cvilian dress with the Order of the Red Eagle and the Order of the Black Eagle.
Bust in profile right.
Elegant, simple hot water urn of sterling silver with bright-cut engraving, urn-shaped with two elongated, reeded loop handles on a short stem with round foot mounted on a square plinth with four small ball feet, the frontal spigot with a carved tap, the cylindrical domed cover with a finial in the form of a covered urn, the body, plinth, cover, and spigot with beaded borders, the body decorated in bright-cut engraving with an oval reserve that has been left empty surmounted by a tied ribbon, below the lip a band of repeating diamond and floral motifs.
Rectangular green jasper plaque with white relief scene of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides