Milk Pitcher

Wedgwood

  • Titles Milk Pitcher (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. (8.9 x 13.3 x 9.8 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.517.2011
  • Work Type pitcher
  • Classification Containers

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Vase with a waisted form that flares out and then tapers to the base. The exterior is decorated with plain bands circling the form and a central band made up of horizontal, jagged grooves that decrease in size as they move down the vase. The lip of the vase declines inward toward the center of the vase. The vase's interior is glazed gray-blue with a slight green cast to it. The glaze does not extend completely to the bottom of the vase's interior where there are some lumps and areas with no final color glaze. The vase is heavy.
Cast-iron statuette of King Friedrich II of Prussia (1712-86), standing with his right leg casually bent, his left hand on his hip and his right hand holding a walking cane, wearing civilian dress with the Order of the Black Eagle on his left breast, the statuette on a small square, stepped pedestal.
Large, square earthenware tile partially printed and hand-painted with a circular reserve outlined by a white band within two yellow bands containing in white with blue highlights the portrait of a woman to left wearing a light blouse and apron with straw hat and hairband with flower, the ground with a blue on blue design of floral vines, the larger ground of the tile contains in various shades of blue a pattern of decorative, horizontal bands with from the top a band of small x's and solid dots; the name of the season SPR ING; a fish scale pattern; a band of open dots; a band of scrolling motifs; and a band featuring a zigzag design, the reverse with horizontal bars in relief to aid adhesion when setting the tile.
Porcelain figure of a woodpecker perched on a tree stump, with green back feathers, black open beak and black feet.