Dwarf

Staffordshire

About 1800

  • Titles Dwarf (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (8.9 x 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.351.1998
  • Work Type figure
  • Classification Sculpture

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Small oval medallion of black basalt with the relief profile portrait bust of David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor, in classical drapery, to right, with the name GARRICK below the truncation.
The figure of a mustached Doctor Boloardo standing on a small white base, his knees bent and his right leg thrust forward, his hands at waist, wearing red knee breeches, white stockings and black shoes, his puce-colored coat with gilt buttons and details, a large white ruffled collar rests upon his gray cloak with yellow lining, he wears a large black hat over a blue skullcap
Bulbous vase with long narrow neck, exterior green black glaze graduated from dark at neck to lighter on body and dark on base, interior glazed cream
Delicate, decorative pocket watch stand and jewelry holder of cast iron, on a stepped, rectangular base decorated with anthemion motifs, the lower body of the stand is comprised of intricate scrolling foliage bound together at six points and in the center supporting an organic, bud-like element from which extend scrolls that hold a ring decorated with six prongs designed to hold the watch chain and/or jewelry, the holder for the watch is comprised of five petal-like elements pierced with Gothic trefoils, the finial of the watch holder is in the form of a pinecone between two scrolling leaves