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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Flower pot and corresponding underdish of white stoneware covered with a variegated agate glaze in shades of brown, black, creamy yellow and green, both the pot and the under dish have a basket weave border below the lip, left white, the interiors are glazed black.

Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, self frame, pierced to hang.

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