Jug

Wedgwood

  • Titles Jug (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware with lustre glaze
  • Dimensions 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 14 x 10.8 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.920.2008
  • Work Type jug
  • Classification Containers

See More of the Collection

Majolica bird-and-fan pattern garden seat with a burgundy glaze in the form of a tufted cushion with rope tassels atop a seat with an alternating bird, blossom and fan design in relief, with rope trim base.
Bust in profile right in uniform.
Creamware covered urn on small square base decorated with gold bands and a lattice and dot pattern all around, the round foot likewise with gold bands and painted flower and leafy sprigs, the main body painted on both sides with on one children in a landscape, the boy playing a flute, the landscape extends around the entire body and on the second side the scene of a group of children at a tree with a boy climbing on a wall to reach it, with two gilded satyr handles whose horns extend up and around to meet the lip, the shoulder and neck likewise decorated with flower and leaf sprigs, the fixed domed cover with gold bands and ball finial highlighted in gold.
Salad spoon with handle of dark blue jasper with white relief decoration in a pattern of acanthus leaves and small floral motifs, a small floral motif at the tip, the stem and bowl of silver plate.