Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 x 9 x 5 1/4 in. (3.2 x 22.9 x 13.3 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.3015.2008
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Standing Man and Seated Woman with Eggs, Derby Porcelain Manufactory, William Duesbury & Co., ceramic
Small figure of a reaper or an allegory of autumn made of white soft-paste porcelain covered with a clear, lead-based glaze, in the form of a naked putto or cherub leaning against a coral-like "stump" and draped with a cloth that is belted at the waist, standing on an irregular, rocky base, under his left arm he holds a thick sheaf of wheat, his right arm is raised and outstretched and in his right hand he holds something, which has broken off (perhaps a sickle).
One of a pair of silver sauceboats of stocky, oval shape with scalloped rim and extended lip, resting on four squat rippled legs with feet comprised of small scrolls that are splayed like toes, with restrained rippled scroll handle, on one side of the main body the engraved crest of the Earl of Derby impaled with the motto below SANS CHANGER, on the other the badge of the Earl of Derby.
Cup and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the cup with a series of cupids at play with dogs and birds and insects, the handle with molded acanthus leaf motifs and shell terminal, the lower part of the cup and the saucer engine turned with light green and white stripes, the saucer with applied overlapping acanthus and stiff leaf motifs around the edge, the interior of the cup is lapidary polished.