Miniature Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Miniature Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions each: 3/8 x 3 1/4 in. (1 x 8.3 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.745.2010.1-.26
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Footed bowl of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief, the foot with a band of bound reeds and beading, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaves all around and the main body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series, including women and children at play in a landscape with trees and birds and a dog on a stippled ground, with a band of guilloche below the lip.
Curved frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of four Dancing Hours figures on a thin ground that extends length of panel.
Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry, Modeled after a Wedgwood medallion by John Flaxman, Jr., Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, cast iron
Small round button comprised of a solid light blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Hercules and the Cretan Bull – Hercules carrying the slain Cretan Bull over his shoulder – set in a cut steel mount set with two rows of faceted beads of cut steel, the reverse of the mount pierced in a spoke pattern.