Liberty Bell

Wedgwood

  • Titles Liberty Bell (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (black basalt)
  • Dimensions 3 3/4 x 3 x 3 in. (9.5 x 7.6 x 7.6 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.1030.2008
  • Work Type bell
  • Classification Sculpture

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Statuette.
Small, bulbous pitcher of glazed red stoneware with round, integral handle and irregularly curved lip, the body glazed in a creamy white with swirls of gray and greenish-yellow and splashes of black that feather out into the colored glazes giving a smoky appearance, the lip outlined in black.
Statuette
Set of four small silver salts, each canoe-shaped and double bellied, with reeded edge and two delicately scrolled handles, resting on short stem and oval foot likewise with reeded edge, the interior covered with a light gilt wash, on one side of the main body an engraved crest that possibly includes the Prince of Wales feathers.