Dish

  • Titles Dish (Descriptive)
  • Medium stoneware
  • Dimensions 1 x 3 in. (2.5 x 7.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.547.1998
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Oil lamp of black basalt resting on a small square plinth, plain round foot and stem, the lower body fluted, the upper body plain and with three extended openings for three wicks in the form of leafy brackets, the interior with three funnels to feed the wicks through, small beading around the lip, the wooden cover a replacement.
Teapot and associated stand of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the teapot raised on round foot decorated with bound reeds, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaf motifs and the main body with on one side the image of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other Sportive Love, or the figure of a young maiden with a cupid balanced on her toe, both against a stippled ground, a band of guilloche runs around the pot at the shoulder, with laurel leaf and berry-molded spout and double, leaf-molded conjoined handle, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and a large draped cherub as finial, the stand with overlapping acanthus and anthemion motifs.
Large figural group of white earthenware and highlighted sparsely with bright enamels modeled in the manner of 18th-century Staffordshire figures of a bride and groom with a flower girl and ring bearer, the bride is pregnant and holds a large bouquet at waist height, the groom holds a hat in his right hand, the young boy blows his nose on the bride's veil, behind the couple is a tree with flowering branches and on the reverse are animals such as a squirrel, a bird's nest with three chicks and a mother bird, and a rabbit amongst the foliage; incised in the trunk of the tree are two hearts with an arrow through them and the initials of Josiah Wedgwood V and others who contributed to the production of the piece.
Obverse: Head in profile left. Reverse: In the center a lyre with laurel branches.