Ladle

Wedgwood

  • Titles Ladle (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 7 x 2 1/2 in. (17.8 x 6.4 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.3295.2008
  • Work Type ladle
  • Classification Containers

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Molded tripod vase and reversible cover of black basalt, the vase supported by three legs with lion's masks at top, the legs and the vase body decorated with bands of various classical motifs, including acanthus leaves and fluting on the upper body and a band of fasces at the neck, the cover reverses from a domed one decorated with scrolling foliage and a sunflower finial to a lotus-shaped candle holder with acanthus-leaf motifs.
Bow porcelain goat with a kid. The mother goat is sitting on an oblong base with the head turned to one side. The kid's head is reaching at the underbelly of the goat with front legs bent. The goat has horns and short goat beard. There is a hole in the base.
Madonna della Sedia (Madonna of the Chair), Modeled by Leonhard Posch, Eisenguß auf Messing, After an engraving by Raphael Morghen, After the original tondo (1513/14) by Raphael, cast iron on brass