Cups and Saucers

Wedgwood

  • Titles Cups and Saucers (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions cups each: 2 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 in. (5.7 x 7.3 x 5.1 cm) saucers each: 5/8 x 4 3/8 in. diam. (1.6 x 11.1 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.883.2011.1-.3.1-.2
  • Work Type cups and saucers
  • Classification Containers

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Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief of women and children dancing
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in black jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage. There is little to no shading and the modeling is very crisp.
Solid light blue jasper teapot with white jasper relief decoration, cylindrical in shape, the lower body with elongated and stylized acanthus leaf motifs, the upper body with a band of guilloche below the angular shoulder, the short neck with a band of laurel leaves and berries, with ribbed and leaf-molded spout and handle, the cover (likely a marriage) with simple acanthus leaf motifs and beading, with ball finial.
Bust in profile right.