Mold

Wedgwood

  • Titles Mold (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 4 x 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (10.2 x 19.1 x 14.6 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.740.2012
  • Work Type mold
  • Classification Containers

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Toft tray, outside blister brown glaze, inside blue thawed snow
Large, round, shallow bowl with scalloped edges and fluted sides of dark red stoneware and covered with a thick, opaque beige ash glaze that is pitted and scorched, in the central well a scroll-like motif.
Small snuff bottle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on one side the figure in white relief of Cupid with a bird as allegory of fall from a series of the seasons, on either side a goat's head mask.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of Soldier Bringing the News of the Death of Patroclus shows two men mourning at a head hung up at an altar.