Monteith

Wedgwood

  • Titles Monteith (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 6 x 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (15.2 x 32.4 x 21 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.1125.2011
  • Work Type punch bowl
  • Classification Containers

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Molded figure of a shepherdess standing in full figure atop an octagonal base with concave corners and highlighted with a brown band and a mound of green ground with a green tree stump as support, the figure wears a yellow gown highlighted with blue and turns toward a small white lamb with brown spots who rests on the top of the stump, her arms encircling it.
Covered chocolate cup and saucer of undecorated white stoneware, the cup footed and goblet shaped with two double scroll handles, the conforming cover with flat finial, the saucer molded with a slight indent in the middle to hold the cup, the interior of the cup is lapidary polished and the underside of the cover is glazed.
Small, two-part sculpture in the form of a low round platform of bone china, left white except for the upper side, which is decorated to look like a light blue sky with a pattern of fluffy white cloud formations, together with the biscuit figure of a man in bone china, his arms at his sides, legs together, eyes closed, no hair, the figure and the platform are separate and the figure may be placed at will on top of the platform.
Tricolor jasper barber bottle, the main body of solid white jasper with yellow and black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the bottle on round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the body with stiff leaf motifs that extend upward from the stem, with four large molded masks of Bacchus at the shoulder atop a band of laurel leaves and berries that extends around the entire shoulder, the masks above garlands of leafy grape vines with bunches of grapes, on each of four sides a small roundel of blue jasper with allegories of the seasons in the form of cupids with the relevant seasonal attributes, surrounded by a white border, the long narrow neck with floral garlands held by small ram's heads below a band of beading, with a band of crossed ribbons at the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and ball finial.