Mold

Wedgwood

  • Titles Mold (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 21.6 x 17.8 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.1159.2011
  • Work Type mold
  • Classification Containers

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Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of King William III facing left, broken and repaired with large piece missing at top
Round, cast-iron medallion with the portrait bust of Apostle John the Evangelist three-quarter right with his head facing front, his left arm rests on a book and in his left hand he holds a scroll, behind him on his right is a cup with a viper in it, his emblem, in memory of the challenge to him by a high priest of Diana at Ephesus to drink a poisoned cup
Heavy rectangular inkwell of cast iron resting on a total of ten block feet, the base in the form of a Gothic architectural structure comprised on each long side of a colonnade of three ogee arches and on each short side of two ogee arches with blind Gothic trefoils, crockets, and leafy finials with small battlements in between, each corner a kind of shield with leafy motifs, the inkwell proper with two openings for sand and ink (the glass inserts now missing) with covers decorated with organic motifs and stylized leaf finials, in the middle a central well with tapered and fluted body and leafy lip and foot (the cover is missing).
Small oval medallion of black basalt with the bearded portrait bust of the Roman general and politician Quintilius draped and with laurel leaf crown facing right, below the bust impressed QUINTILI., set into a simple, tooled silver mount with an eye for a chain.