Footed Compote

Wedgwood

  • Titles Footed Compote (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • 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.3014.2008
  • Work Type compote
  • Classification Containers

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Large silver hot water urn on square base with four ball feet, the edges reeded, resting on round foot with two reeded bands encircling the foot, on short stem the bulbous body plain, with two, round hinged handles and wide band of reeding at the shoulder, extending from the lower body is a long, reeded spigot with ivory knob, the elegantly domed cover with central band of reeding and ball finial, on one side of the cover engraved the arms of the Stephens family impaled with the arms of the Lugg family, with badge above (a rampant lion left); inside the urn is a long tube with domed cover and ball finial that inserts into a ring to hold it upright, to contain hot coal with which to keep the water hot.
Oval black basalt intaglio with three-quarter portrait of man
Trophy plate of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, with a central vignette of the Muses Grooming Pegasus surrounded by scrolled ribbon and vine banding, the border with floral festoons terminating at ram's heads, trophies and small figural cameos with classical subjects, with a band of florets around the rim.
Small, deep jelly mold of creamware with a pearl glaze in a pattern of baluster-shaped spines around the body that extend to a simple pattern of rectangular sections along the lower edge of the mold.