Game Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Game Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium caneware
  • Dimensions 5 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (13.3 x 29.2 x 19.1 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.1194.2011
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Porcelain figure of a lioness with a tan coat, a grey nose, chartreuse-green eyes and an open mouth revealing an iron-red tongue, with a raised right forepaw, a cub beneath her breast, semi-recumbent on a mound base applied with yellow florettes and green leaves, mounted on a gilt bronze rococo scrollwork base.
Bulb pot of solid white jasper with a deep blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, of Greek cantharos shape, the body of inverted bell shape with two elongated ear handles with loops in the middle and mounted on a square plinth, on each side of the plinth scrolling foliate motifs with a larger leafy element in the center, the lower body with a repeating drop leaf pattern and the upper body divided into sections each with a small classical scene, including Coriolanus; the Three Graces; Beleraphon watering Pegasus; Nike and Warrior; Procession; and the Archers, the interior is glazed and with a flat round insert cover with holes to accommodate flower stems.
Bust in profile right in Austrain general's uniform with sash and ermine mantle.
White porcelain figure of a seated man playing the mandolin, seated on a tree stump with flowery branch on molded, rocky base, his legs crossed and his head turned to one side as though singing, wearing 18th century garb and hat.