Lithophane Globe

Wedgwood

  • Titles Lithophane Globe (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 4 x 4 in. Diam. (10.2 x 10.2 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.721.2012
  • Work Type lithophane globe
  • Classification Containers

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Oval box with landscape on lid.
Large teapot of buff-colored caneware molded to resemble a series of bamboo stalks, the slightly curved spout likewise molded to resemble bamboo, the loop handle also, the conforming cover with a band of bamboo around the edge and a bamboo finial, the interior is glazed.
Ladies' parasol of black silk taffeta and lined with black silk, the canopy overlaid with black tulle, cut to reveal a subtle floral design with applied black cording and gold thread applied in a pattern of stylized leafy floral motifs, with ruffled edge with black satin banding and tuft of black silk at the top, the tapered handle/stick of ivory carved in relief with a floral garland that winds around the stick, the spike in the form of the bust of a bacchanalian figure likewise in carved ivory, with two tassels attached to the stick with black twine, the frame of black and gold tone metal.
Small, footed bowl of yellowish-beige earthenware comprised of six sections each connected in an irregular way such that the bowl appears to rotate or turn, covered with a white glaze that is uneven and puckered in spots, the raised seams where each of the six sections meet as well as the rim of the bowl are left without glaze and reveal the raw clay beneath.