Infant Academy

Wedgwood

About 1785

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A tall, two-handled, urn-shaped tulip, or flower, vase of tin-glazed earthenware, with eight spouts on the body and seven on the conforming cover, the body decorated in blue on white ground with panels of hanging vines below large shell motifs, with lattice work and floral motifs in between, the waisted lower body with panels of fish scale motifs and four-lobed flowers, the foot with leaf motifs, the shoulder with stylized gadrooning, the spouts on the body each with floral and leaf motifs, the cover likewise in blue and white with a pattern of geometric and floral motifs.
Dancing Figure, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed sideways in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, above and below the printed scene and on the interior and exterior sides a border of small blue square elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.
Small, round, footed bowl of tan stoneware set on an angle and covered with a rough creamy glaze with streaks of brown, the narrow central well flanked by large, delicate, billowing "flanges" with ruffled edges highlighted in gray that give the bowl the sense of fluttering movement.