Pair of Earrings

Wedgwood

About 1970

  • Titles Pair of Earrings (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china and metal
  • Dimensions each: 5/8 x 3/4 x 15/16 in. (1.6 x 1.9 x 2.4 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.848.2010a-b
  • Work Type jewelry
  • Classification Jewelry

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Rectangular dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of sacrificial scene with four male figures, set in silver as a brooch, two vertical cracks
Wedgwood floral brooch featuring a bone china flower on a metal mount
Octagonal blue jasper cameo, two-sided with white relief of three figures (parents and child?) on one side and intaglio of same scene on the other
Tea bowl and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the tea bowl with an engine-turned lower body, the main body decorated with cupids at play in a landscape with a flower basket, birds and insects, an urn and a dog, with a lapidary-polished interior, the saucer (possibly a marriage) engine turned on the interior resulting in light green and white stripes, the rim decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves.