Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 2 7/8 x 9 1/2 x 8 13/16 in. (7.3 x 24.1 x 22.4 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.3277.2008
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Solid light blue jasper urn with applied white jasper relief decoration, on square plinth with truncated corners and a pattern of stiff leaf all around with acanthus leaves at the corners, the round foot with a band of acanthus leaves and beading at the joint, the lower body with laurel leaves and the main body with swags of laurel leaves and berries hanging from small oval paterae with beaded oval medallions on each side featuring classical scenes, with two scrolled handles with paterae on the sides and applied acanthus leaf motifs, with anthemions at the terminals, the shoulder with a band of palmettes, with acanthus leaves around the flared lip, the cover a wood facsimile.
Dish, or stand, of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration in a pattern of leafy grape vines with bunches of grapes around the rim of the dish.
Bust almost front, the head in profile left.
The bowl is a flat, open shape that tapers down to the base. The exterior is decorated with small imprinted lines that become more distinguished towards the base. The interior and the lip of the bowl are glazed black. There are some larger, spherical imprints closer to the lip of the bowl.