Mortar

Wedgwood

  • Titles Mortar (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. (3.2 x 7.3 x 7 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.3916.2008
  • Work Type mortar
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Wedgwood oval blue jasper plaque, presented to all Wedgwood employees who went to fight in the Great War 1914-1919, this particular plaque was presented to Private, Ernest Bailey of the Royal Defence Corps who before going to war was a painter at Wedgwood's Etruria factory. The front of the plaque has a border of leaves which surround the central scene of Minerva and two other figures with a banner Justice and Liberty 1914-1919.