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England

  • Titles Order Letter (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium ink on paper
  • 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.4487.2008
  • Work Type document
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A heavy and wide, bucket-shaped vase that tapers into a cylinder to form the vase's base. The vase is glazed an olive green/khaki color, then covered irregularly with a light green glaze. On the bucket-shaped part of the vase is a blue-black drip glaze tinged with green that extends to the bottom of the form. The lip of the vase extends out slightly and is light green, then turning into mustard yellow. The interior of the vase is an irregular brown with thin light and dark lines around the form. There is some dark, irregular glaze at the base of the vase's interior.
Chatelaine of cut steel beads with four blue jasper cameos, the two larger oval ones with white relief scenes of sacrifice to Cupid and Conquered Province, the two smaller round ones with unidentified scenes
Obverse: Head in profile left. Reverse: In the center a lyre with laurel branches.
Bulbous vase with long narrow neck, exterior green black glaze graduated from dark at neck to lighter on body and dark on base, interior glazed cream