Intaglio

Wedgwood

Titles Intaglio (Descriptive)
Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
Medium stoneware (black basalt)
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.1878.2008
Object Name intaglio
Classification Medals

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Miniature two-handled mug of white jasper with a dark blue jasper dip, on side one is the arms of the City of Worcester, Worcestershire, England, with a depiction of a turreted castle in the center of a shield and in the upper corner three black pears, surrounding the shield are two crossed branches, one a branch of the black pear tree, the other a palm frond, below the coat-of-arms is a banner with the motto of the City, CIVITAS IN BELLO IN PACE FIDELIS (The City faithful in war and in peace) and the name WORCESTER

Large squat Marsden's Art Ware vase of glazed and slip-decorated earthenware, of baluster shape with rolled lip, the body interior and underside covered with a beige glaze, the main exterior body covered with a teal-blue glaze and decorated in a design of leafy branches in brown and beige slip and clusters of oranges in a light teal slip with beige dots indicating a typical orange-peel pattern, the neck with a wide brown band above narrow beige bands.

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