Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 1 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (4.4 x 26.7 x 19.1 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.2964.2008
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. America: the figure of a male Caribbean native child with red skin wearing a colorful feathered costume and headdress and carrying a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder, his left hand holds a bow, under his right foot and resting against a stump decorated with flowers is a small green caiman with open mouth.
Wide, simple fruit bowl, Keith Murray shape 3806, finished with a Moonstone glaze. A series of engine-turned concentric rings encircle the top of the bowl, near the mouth. The rings are repeated on the pedestal base.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of three Dancing Hours figures, all on a thing ground.
Oblong, with jagged edges.