Egg Cups

Wedgwood

1790-1810

  • Titles Egg Cups (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (caneware)
  • Dimensions each: 1 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. Diam. (4.4 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.204.2018.1-.4
  • Work Type cups
  • Classification Containers

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Large plate of creamware with shallow well and wide rim, painted on the front with the scene of the Good Samaritan - in a landscape a man lies unconscious on the road in the foreground while a man with a donkey stops to help, further along the road a cloaked figure with a walking stick walks away, the plate with a mustard-yellow edge.
Pair Wedgwood bone china and metal mounted earrings featuring black and white flowers
Curved bar-shaped pink jasper cameo with white relief decoration
Ornate lithophane holder of rectangular shape the frame highly decorated with intertwining, scrolling grape vines with leaves and bunches of grapes, at the bottom two vines scroll down and around to form legs upon which rests the holder, with a third leg in the back for support.