Dessert Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dessert Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions each: 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (1.9 x 17.1 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.4049.2008.1-.4
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Set of four small silver salts, each canoe-shaped and double bellied, with reeded edge and two delicately scrolled handles, resting on short stem and oval foot likewise with reeded edge, the interior covered with a light gilt wash, on one side of the main body an engraved crest that possibly includes the Prince of Wales feathers.
Oval medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief with a scene from the "Domestic Employment" series, a seated woman reading and a small child playing with a doll on the floor, mounted in a gilt-bronze frame.
Bust in profile left.
Pair of solid white jasper candlesticks with yellow jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on round foot with a band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the lower stem engine-turned in a fluted yellow and white striped pattern, the upper stem with heavy floral and fruit swags supported by ram heads and ribbons and with small oval medallions with classical vignettes inside, with two brass replacement bobeches.