Cups

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cups (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Pearlware or Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 2 1/8 x 4 9/16 x 3 3/4 in. (5.4 x 11.6 x 9.5 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.4148.2008.1.-3
  • Work Type cups
  • Classification Containers

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Tricolor jasper barber bottle, the main body of solid white jasper with yellow and black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the bottle on round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the body with stiff leaf motifs that extend upward from the stem, with four large molded masks of Bacchus at the shoulder atop a band of laurel leaves and berries that extends around the entire shoulder, the masks above garlands of leafy grape vines with bunches of grapes, on each of four sides a small roundel of blue jasper with allegories of the seasons in the form of cupids with the relevant seasonal attributes, surrounded by a white border, the long narrow neck with floral garlands held by small ram's heads below a band of beading, with a band of crossed ribbons at the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and ball finial.
Plaster mold for forming Coupe shaped plates
Round jardinière, or flower pot of creamware on three stout feet and painted on both sides with on one a mother with children and a winged putti in a leafy reserve, and on the other a pair of nude little boy figures within the same leafy reserve, in between the two main scenes is a pattern of four ordered dots, the upper rim edged in mustard yellow.
Enamel miniature portrait of a man on top.