Egg Cup

Wedgwood

  • Titles Egg Cup (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 1 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. Diam. (3.8 x 4.8 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.593.2008
  • Work Type egg cup
  • Classification Containers

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Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Rotund bowl that tapers to base. The exterior is decorated with plain dimensional bands around the form. There is a slight twisted rop design along the first tapered edge of the bowl. The interior is uniformly glazed black.
Underglaze blue decoration
Frame with decorative, pierced, and scrolling border, in the center against a blue fabric ground the silhouette figure of Gutenberg.