Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 2 7/8 x 14 x 7 1/2 in. (7.3 x 35.6 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.580.2008
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Small round medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white bas relief of an "Offering to Jupiter" — Jupiter is seated on a stool with a staff and an eagle by his side, a young maiden approaches him with a large round bowl — in a cut-steel mount set with two bands of faceted cut-steel beads and a wider band of small cut-steel beads arranged in a floral pattern between single, larger, oval, faceted cut-steel beads, the reverse with a brass and steel pin (a later addtion or repair)
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures on a thin ground.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a man selling fruit, emblematic of autumn, standing in full figure on a pierced rococo base highlighted in gold, green and puce, to his right a flowering branch that offers the figure support, around his waist a blue apron bag holding a bunch of various fruits and additional fruits are in his outstretched left hand, wearing flowered britches and jacket, with puce hat and shoes.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures, all on a thin ground.