Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 2 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 4 7/16 in. (6.4 x 15.9 x 11.3 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.3811.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type dishes
  • Classification Containers

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Lady wearing dress and cloak leaning against pedestal, painted with a marblized effect in pink, purples and blue; left hand rests on porcelain covered urn
Bust in profile left in fur-trimmed coat made of brown-colored plaster.
Solid light blue jasper tea bowl and saucer decorated with applied white jasper relief, the saucer a slightly darker blue (the tea bowl and saucer are a marriage) with engine turning on the underside and overlapping white acanthus leaves around the interior rim, the tea bowl is slightly wonky from firing with applied images of cherubs at play with dogs and butterflies, and a chariot pulled by a lion.
Obverse: Bust front holding the Ninety-Five Theses. Reverse with inscription.