Finial

Wedgwood

  • Titles Finial (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium creamware
  • 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.794.2010
  • Object Name finial
  • Classification Containers

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Bulb pot of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, oval in shape with two leaf-molded handles, the lower body around the foot with a molded basket weave pattern, the main body with applied white classical figures representing Apollo and the Nine Muses, with a band of dashes and dots around the shoulder, the shaped neck with applied white trophies and swags, with an insert cover that is naturalistically molded and with applied white flowers and contains four holes to accommodate four bulb fitments.
Napkin ring of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration comprised of three small relief scenes divided by decorative elements, the scenes include the Bourbonnais Shepherd, Nike and a Warrior, and a group with a cage.
Small oval medallion of dark blue jasperware with white jasper relief of an African slave wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Wesley (1703-1790) facing right, Founder of English methodism; the second son of Samuel Wesley, rector of Epworth. Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He showed great promise as a student, and developed a strong religious fervour after reading Law's Serious Call. He formed an association with other students of the college who held similar views, in their devotions and from the punctiliousness of the members demeanour, they became to be called 'methodists' by the wits of the university. Among the circle, apart from Wesley, was George Whitfield who was to acquire almost equal celebrity at the time. Wesley went to the American colony of Virginia and preached among the Indians. In 1738 he returned to London and began to preach, drawing large crowds. He then went to Bristol to become a field preacher in successiopn to Whitfield. He would usually travel 4,500 miles a year or a total of 225,000 miles in his lifetime delivering sermons from 2 to 4 hours long.