Fortitude

Wedgwood

  • Titles Fortitude (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 22 x 10 x 7 in. (55.9 x 25.4 x 17.8 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.2950.2008
  • Work Type sculpture
  • Classification Sculpture

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A soft-paste, white porcelain cup and saucer with overglaze puce enamel color, the cup fluted and with scalloped edge, painted with a design of ruins in a landscape, with scroll handle, the conforming saucer likewise fluted and with scalloped edge and painted with a similar design.
Small round creamware plate covered with a pearl glaze, with molded fluted design, the center and rim painted with bright enamel colors in shades of green, purple, yellow and pink, the central image of a large green leaf upon which a tall yellow urn from which extend floral blossoms on leafy vines in the Chinese manner, the border painted green with a repeating geometric pattern punctuated by small reserves with yellow and pink ribbon motifs.
Bust in profile right. Cast after a Wedgwood jasper medallion, catalogued by Josiah Wedgwood in 1779.
Iron extraction and processing, commemorating the 225th jubilee of the Buderus Foundry.