McDuff

England

About 1820

  • Titles McDuff (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium porcelain
  • Dimensions 2 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (5.4 x 5.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.334.1998
  • Work Type figure
  • Classification Sculpture

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Obverse: Bust in profile right.
Creamware soup plate in the Royal shape transfer-printed in black depicting a naval vessel with a yellow-painted flag with a double eagle, which is that of the last German Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Francis II (1768-1835), the rim printed with five sprays of flowers.
Light blue and white jasper portrait medallion depicting the potter John Philip Elers (1664-1738) slightly right with his head turned to the left, wearing a wig and neck scarf.
Tall covered urn of black basalt on round foot, the edge with a band of acanthus leaf motifs, the stem with a pattern of stiff leaf elements and with a beaded waist, the lower body with gadrooning and the main body with a scene of Bacchanalian Boys in relief after Lady Diana Beauclerk, including on one side a satyr putti sitting on rocks eating grapes, another sitting under a tree holding a staff, one putti sitting under a tree and dozing and one kneeling with a basket of bunches of grapes, on the other side two putti with a staff, two carrying a third in their arms, and one seated on a rock with pan pipes, trees divide the two sides, above the main body is a band of feathery floral motifs and at the shoulder a band of masks, two of which are Bacchus, and symbols of the arts and sciences, the shoulder with stylized leafy fronds and floral drops, with beading around the neck and lip, stiff leaf motifs on the neck, and two intricate lion, or leopard, handles, the corresponding cover with leafy fronds and a finial in the form of a seated, draped putti with an instrument.